Part 7

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Lord Grandthams POV:
After dinner, the ladies went through and Adam, Matthew and I stayed behind for cigars and brandy.

Lord Grandtham: So Adam, what do you think of the house?  I hope it is to your liking.

Adam: You are much to kind Robert the house is stunning, I have never seen one like it before.

Matthew: I remember when I first came here I was so intimidated by the lavish house and the beauty inside and out.

Lord Grandtham: Well I hope you were not intimidated Adam.

Adam: More in awe.

I chuckled and took another puff of my cigar.

Lord Grandtham: Well if you don't find this being to forward I think that the girls have taken quiet a shine to you.

I see Adam smile uncomfortably

Adam: Well, not all of them.

Matthew: What do you mean?  They were practically fighting over you at dinner.

Adam: Well I have not talked to your youngest at all.

Lord Grandtham: Jane?  Hmm that's quiet odd, she is usually the one dancing around the living room to entertain us all.

Matthew: Indeed, in fact last week I remember she did a scene from Romeo and Juliett all by herself.

Adam: Indeed, which scene?

Matthew: I believe it was, the balcony scene.

Adam: My my, that is quiet the scene to preform by ones self.

Lord Grandtham: Which is why I am so surprised by her absents, we'll never you mind I'm sure that once we go through she will be the little chatterbox she always is.

I see Adam nod and we walk into the sitting room to join the ladies.

Janes POV:
I was singing one of my favorite tunes for Mama, Mary, Edith, Sybil, Granny and Isebelle when I heard Papas voice getting closer and closer, so I stop singing and sit quietly in a seat next to Sybil.

Mama: Why did you stop darling?  That was wonderful.

Just then the men all walked in and took their places in the room with their Brandt's still in hand.

Granny: Well, I think that mystery is solved.

Matthew: Jane, was that you I heard singing just now?

Jane: Uh-

Sybil: Yes it was, isn't she a beautiful singer?

Matthew: Yes indeed, I new you could act and play piano but I had no notion of your singing, could you sing something for the silly men who missed it for the love of cigars?

I saw all of the men staring at me, normally I would have jumped up like a jack rabbit and started but it was Adam who gave me pause.

Papa: Come now darling, can't you sing once more for your dear Papa at least?

I see everyone staring at me and finally get up,

Jane: Edith, would you mind playing piano?

Edith smiles and nods and takes her place behind the piano and I start to sing.

Adams POV:
I see Edith take her seat at the piano and then....Jane starts to sing. 

I have never heard anything as beautiful and pure in my entire life.  I could not take my eyes off of her.  Every note she sang was like a heavenly chord strung by a harp.

I knew in that moment that this was someone who I needed in my life

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