‘So we keep telling them the same thing,’ said Victoire. ‘He’s holed up in his house, he’s grievously ill, which is why he’s not answering letters or taking visitors, and he told us to come back without him.
This feels like an egregiously bad idea. Am I just dumb or is the best plan not to pretend he was on a later ship and say he was lost at sea? Which now that I'm thinking more probably wont work because there wouldn't be any record of said ship. Either way, pretending he's essentially there with them feels like a terrible move and it's giving me anxiety.
