<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=46369.msg2486968#msg2486968">Quote from: resonanteve on 26-11-2009, 07:35:41</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Lady Marie d'Astineau</span></strong>, Front Lawn of Avonleigh [Marie Archambault, Lady Marie, Deirdre]<br/>...<br/>Lady Marie nudged her mount in motion to move back toward the servant woman at a slow pace, wanting to keep stride with Deirdre, her glance drawing in her surroundings in a very forthright manner.<br/><br/>"How many are at the estate?" she asked of Marie.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="floatleft">(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3993/mariearch.jpg)</div><strong>Marie Archambault</strong>, Front Lawn of Avonleigh [Marie Archambault, Lady Marie, Dee]<br/><br/>Marie Archambault looked Dee up and down as the pair of women, one mounted and one walking, approached the estate. Marie had an amused smiled on her face as she regarded the red-headed commoner. "Nice to meet you, miss," she said to the newcomer, and then she nodded to Lady Marie. "There are maybe thirty souls stayin' at Avonleigh at the moment, Ma'am. But if there are soldiers on the way, I think we ought to go and speak with Miss Lillian about it, don't ya think?