Miranda has a lovely summer, some of it spent at Karen's and some in Italy and some at home.
She shows up with Karen at the train platform and they look for Minor.
Miranda has a lovely summer, some of it spent at Karen's and some in Italy and some at home.
She shows up with Karen at the train platform and they look for Minor.
Both Michael's parents smile at him exasperatedly. Finis holds Catherine up in the air. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten," he tells her seriously. "One and one is two, one and two is three, two and three is five, three and five is eight..."
Finis is trying in Latin now. "Children learn languages better while they're little, you know."
"Up until they're eleven or twelve or so, then it gets harder. Of course, by then she'll speak Latin and Greek and French and English at the very least - maybe some Italian, Italian is a lovely language -"
"I think it's different from - scholar Latin somehow? In nòmine Patris, et Fìlii, et Spìritus Sancti, like that."
He echoes her. "Well, she can learn both - and we can all pick up the kind you're familiar with -"
"Will your church recognize a wizarding marriage?" Nell asks.
"Oh, my church won't actually let me get married any more, I ran away from a convent, so it doesn't matter."
"Are Muggle religions more of a social institution or more about the belief content, for the laity -"
"I, um - I think half the laity barely know the difference honestly but if you don't actually care you convert to Protestantism, this country this era -"
"I'm not a very good Catholic. At all. But it's important to me that I don't just go, oh, okay, I'm not very good at this, I guess I'll forget about it..."
"Well, no, I'm not very good at it because I don't like doing a lot of the things I'm supposed to," says Rebecca. "But I want to be better at it than I would be by accident if I'd never heard of it before, I guess."