~Nancy~

　　The news hung heavy in the air, enveloping the room in a blanket of stunned silence. I sat frozen in my seat, my mind reeling with disbelief.

　　Marriage? At my age?

　　The thought had never even crossed my mind.

　　I couldn't stop the shock that rippled through my veins as I processed Mrs Watt's words. The rhetorical questions kept on coming into my head in floods and I couldn't even stop them.

　　A suitor? Already?

　　I ...