[ There's no attempt to defend the stated extravagance. It's a very pretty garden, and it is somewhere they enjoyed being, but dropping "so we had a private garden and/or island" into conversation is already beginning to feel like a bit Much.
And that's without everything else that they now know that changes the context, subtle shades of meaning that they either didn't know or didn't want to acknowledge before. Unpacking that is a whole ordeal that they're still not ready for. ]
We had visitors occasionally, but the intended audience was family. And that meant it was... ah a deliberate display of sorts. Or it became one over time.
[ They can't help but wander forward a few steps, towards one of the flowerbeds. The colours are ever-so-slightly off- but it's so close to home. ]
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[ There's no attempt to defend the stated extravagance. It's a very pretty garden, and it is somewhere they enjoyed being, but dropping "so we had a private garden and/or island" into conversation is already beginning to feel like a bit Much.
And that's without everything else that they now know that changes the context, subtle shades of meaning that they either didn't know or didn't want to acknowledge before. Unpacking that is a whole ordeal that they're still not ready for. ]
We had visitors occasionally, but the intended audience was family. And that meant it was... ah a deliberate display of sorts. Or it became one over time.
[ They can't help but wander forward a few steps, towards one of the flowerbeds. The colours are ever-so-slightly off- but it's so close to home. ]