Gwen Hayes by Ours is Just a Little Sorrow

Author:Ours is Just a Little Sorrow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The next day, I struggled to stay awake during Phillip's history lesson. Gideon had the luxury of sleeping the day away after a night of rabble rousing, but this governess did not. John took pity on me after a rather unladylike yawn and whisked Phillip to the lab for an impromptu science lesson.

I tried to read some more but found myself dozing a bit when Oliver handed me a note from John. I'd been invited to the laboratory.

Most often, I tried to stay away from John's lab. When he was in it, he became distracted and consumed with whatever he was working on, so it was usually a useless gesture to visit him there. I often worried that he'd forget Phillip was even with him, but I was assured by my charge that John was always most attentive on their shared lab days.

I knocked and entered the huge space with tables of boiling liquids and automated who-knows-whats. Beakers and glass tubes lined the tables and I coughed a little at the smell of sulfur. At least, I hoped it was sulfur.

Phillip was wearing a white coat that matched his brother, and they had both donned safety glasses. I was glad to see that John had taken me seriously about eye safety. Also, the matching coats were adorable. John was so good with him. It was a shame that the Colonel devoted so little time to parenting, but Phillip was exceedingly lucky to have John.

Phillip smiled when he saw me and ran over to grab my hand. "You'll see! You'll see!" he yelled and led me to a small glass Petri dish. "I know you've been sad, so I wanted to make you something. John helped. But not too much because I'm a big boy."

"Of course you are," I replied.

He and John very seriously mixed some things from droppers and vials into the dish. One more dash of something, a slight pop, a puff of smoke, and an excited little boy squeal of delight later, above the Petri dish hovered a hologram of a perfect violet.

"However did you do that?" I asked.

"Perhaps someday I'll tutor you, Miss Merriweather," answered John, looking as pleased with himself as Phillip did.

"It's a violet. Get it? Violet is your name," Phillip added.

"It's beautiful." And it was. "Thank you so much. If you can tell me what letter violet starts with, you may have the rest of the day free from studies."

After the correct answer, Phillip cleared out as fast as his little legs would allow. I offered to help clean up, but John would have none of it.

"It's your gift. You can't clean up after a gift."

I smiled. "Thank you for helping him, John. It means so much to me that you've taken such an interest in his education."

"He was adamant about making you something to make you feel better. He told me your weakness was chocolate, but I doubted you would eat anything from my laboratory."

I laughed at the truth of it. "I don't know how he came up with such a thing.

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