Dr. Wells... She remembered what Anne had told her about him.

She looked at the maid turned lady.

Kate was sweating at this point. She was embarrassed about her own assumptions, though this 'Pippa' seemed to take it well. The tension rose as the young lady spoke. So John was a substitute? A willing one at that?

She was not a child, of course. She had already embarrassed herself once. She would deal with this like a grown up. She opened her mouth. Then she balled her fists.

"Well, you'll ruin all our lives if he carries on with it!" She shouted and she turned on her heel and ran.