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kitchen_maid) wrote2007-07-12 09:34 pm
kitchen_maid) wrote2007-07-12 09:34 pm
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Amy is Wise.
Which means there are some things she simply knows. It's not like knowledge, or or even intelligence. Those are different. (Which is not to say that she's not learned or intelligent. Just that she is not Learned, or Intelligent.)
One of the things she knows is that there are things you can change, and that there are things you cannot change. If you are the Queen of Ambergeldar, there are rather a lot more of the former than there are for most people, but that doesn't mean the latter doesn't exist. And it's no use trying to change the latter. (There's some Grace there, too.) All you can do with those is change how you deal with them. (That is where the Courage comes in, and sometimes the Cheerful.)
Yes, Amy is Wise.
But she's also Ordinary, which sometimes means not being Wise and Graceful and Courageous and Cheerful, and just being . . . Ordinary. And the Ordinary thing to do, when you're tired and cross and sad and hurt, is to be the tiniest bit selfish and sulky, to hide away from things you should or would otherwise do, to be pensive and melancholy.
So she sent word that she wasn't coming to dinner, dismissed anyone and everyone from her rooms, pulled a chair over by the window. The book in her hand is the Bible, and it's open to the sixteenth chapter of John, but she's not reading at the moment. She's just sitting, looking out over the garden, watching the evening arrive in Ambergeldar.
She hasn't sent for her husband. She doesn't need to. He'll know where to find her.
Perry is wise, too.
Which means there are some things she simply knows. It's not like knowledge, or or even intelligence. Those are different. (Which is not to say that she's not learned or intelligent. Just that she is not Learned, or Intelligent.)
One of the things she knows is that there are things you can change, and that there are things you cannot change. If you are the Queen of Ambergeldar, there are rather a lot more of the former than there are for most people, but that doesn't mean the latter doesn't exist. And it's no use trying to change the latter. (There's some Grace there, too.) All you can do with those is change how you deal with them. (That is where the Courage comes in, and sometimes the Cheerful.)
Yes, Amy is Wise.
But she's also Ordinary, which sometimes means not being Wise and Graceful and Courageous and Cheerful, and just being . . . Ordinary. And the Ordinary thing to do, when you're tired and cross and sad and hurt, is to be the tiniest bit selfish and sulky, to hide away from things you should or would otherwise do, to be pensive and melancholy.
So she sent word that she wasn't coming to dinner, dismissed anyone and everyone from her rooms, pulled a chair over by the window. The book in her hand is the Bible, and it's open to the sixteenth chapter of John, but she's not reading at the moment. She's just sitting, looking out over the garden, watching the evening arrive in Ambergeldar.
She hasn't sent for her husband. She doesn't need to. He'll know where to find her.
Perry is wise, too.
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There's a knock, therefore, and before she can say "come in," or "please go," the handle is turning and he stands in her doorway with a tray that he carefully balances on one hand while closing the door behind him with the other.
The tray goes down on a small table, and then Perry makes his way to his kitchen maid, his darling Amy, who is sitting at the window, looking out and seeing nothing at all.
There's another chair; he picks it up and puts it next to her, and then they sit together. After a little while, he reaches out and puts an arm around her, to pull her to him.
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And then she says, "They've left."
Nothing more.
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