We should, [ Yseult's nod makes it sound like agreement, rather than direction. ] Young women make the best spies for precisely that reason. No one ever thinks twice about a vapid little housemaid or a debutante. I probably did my best work before I was twenty.
[ This is said wryly, self-deprecating. She lifts her tea cup and drinks, a hand on an ankle tugging crossed legs further up onto the chair's seat. ]
And you've a good face for it. You'll need to practice looking vacant. Men usually see what they expect, but you're a bit too sharp-eyed to fool the truly paranoid, or the wives.
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[ This is said wryly, self-deprecating. She lifts her tea cup and drinks, a hand on an ankle tugging crossed legs further up onto the chair's seat. ]
And you've a good face for it. You'll need to practice looking vacant. Men usually see what they expect, but you're a bit too sharp-eyed to fool the truly paranoid, or the wives.