Today we get to be bogged down with overblown descriptions of alchemy!  Diana is studying Matthew’s book that has two unknown illustrations.  I honestly have no idea what we’re supposed to take away from this, since…well, it’s the only book with those illustrations in it, and generally speaking if you have an entire body of…

Afterward I wanted to go straight to Matthew’s study and start examining Aurora Consurgens, but he convinced me to take a bath first. Diana, sweetheart, you need to eat your lunch and take a bath and then go play with your pretty books.  There’s a good dear.  *pat on the head*  Maybe if you’re a…

The next morning, Diana wants to go riding and Matthew once again treats her like a small child who has to be told what to do and when to do it.  He thinks she’s too tired for riding, because he knows so much more about her condition and her abilities and her limitations than Diana…

So Matthew’s mother turns out to be a pretty stereotypical, overbearing, disapproving, prim-and-proper type mother in law.  Apparently the fact that she’s French has something to do with this, because as we all know, French people aren’t real people, they’re French, and all that entails.  How original.  Excuse me while I go over here and…

There was a powerful taste of cloves in my mouth, So, the next morning, Diana wakes up to find Matthew is in bed with her.  Literally.  And she tastes cloves, while Matthew has repeatedly been said to smell like cloves.  This does not strike me as a warm, fluffy, romantic way to wake up.  This…