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Chapter Seventeen: Queenmakers
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Edinburgh – Gordon Townhouse
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6th October 1825
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The butler looked at the card and nodded while smiling at Roberto.
- I'll inform the Mistress that you specifically asked for her.
He pointed at the series of seats standing in the parlor the maid had brought him to after having opened the door and taken his card.
- Please take a seat while I inform the Masters. It won't take long.
He looked at the maid who stood near the door.
- Tell Mary what you would like to have. Our cook makes an excellent Arabica brand that is renowned to be quite similar to those liked in Madrid.
Roberto who was a lot more coffee than tea, nodded in the maid's direction.
- Coffee would be perfect. I am indeed one of those coffee loving Spaniards who roam the world trying to convince the Brits to, at last, enter the realm of real men and civilization.
The smile in the Butler's eyes told Roberto that the feud between coffee lovers and the British traditionalists has reached Northern Scotland.
- The Master is already a coffee lover while the Mistress is firmly a Chai adept. They tend not to waste time on each other's beverage preferences. The fact that cook is of Indian origins and well versed in the more exotic brand of cooking helps…
He bowed, nodded to Mary who was immediately out of sight and left the little parlor.
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The coffee arrived at the same time as the Master of the House who dismissed the maid and poured a couple of coffee cups before sitting on the other side of the small table.
He placed Roberto's card on the table.
- What does Roberto Mureno y Diaz Solumbra, whose card sports the arms of the House of Bourbon want from my wife?
The question has been asked while sipping its coffee cup which was a sign, for Roberto, that even if the question was at the periphery of rudeness, they still were in the realm of civilized behavior.
- I'm a special envoy from Manuel de Godoy, Spain's main Royal advisor. And I'm here to see your wife because it is her skills and experience, we believe are needed. My Master has been adamant that, should you wish to be present, you could be involved in the deal.
- Deal? You are here on a business trip?
- We wish to secure your wife's help because she's the best one who will be, in our opinion, capable to render the service we wish to obtain.
Roberto couldn't not see the stiffness that appeared in Donald Gordon's overall composure.
- My wife doesn't need a job…
- We don't offer a job, Mr. Gordon. We would consider your wife's help in dealing with our problem as a favor. And once you both know what it is we want her to do, we are sure that you'll look at it in the exact same way.
A female voice coming form the vestibule pushed both men to look in that direction.
- So, let's hear what you want me to do, Senor Mureno.
This time Roberto stood and bowed.
- It will be my pleasure, Mrs. Gordon. But I will have to insist that we move to a place where no one, but you and me, will be able to listen. What I'm about to tell you must be considered a State secret and I'm quite sure that, considering your family's links to ruling dynasties, you have a safe and secured place where we will be able to speak without having foreign listeners.
- Every one of our retainers has been vetted out by the King's own security services. They are trustworthy.
- In manners belonging to Britain, I'm quite sure you are right. But I'm here on Spain's behalf and you are the only ones I'm allowed to speak about what has brought me here.
He looked at Donald.
- Even if it seems rude, I will add that I would prefer that only you Mrs. Gordon gets a complete report of why I'm here today. I know that you will be honest and restrict what we are about to speak about to nobody…
Once more he looked at Donald Gordon.
- I've made, of course, my investigations and I'm quite sure that your husband is trustworthy when it comes to Scotland, the Darcys and Great Britain. In that order! Spain is nowhere within his current allegiances and I'm very worried to be forced to trust a man whose allegiances could put him… How do you say? Between a hard place and an Anvil?
Lydia and Donald shared a long glance.
- Will it satisfy your mistrust if my husband gives you his word that whatever we speak about within his private office won't be even alluded to anywhere else?
She smiled at her husband.
- Donald and I we have a bond that goes a lot deeper than a wedding contract. We share everything and I need to discuss all my problems with him. So, I won't accept your offer if you insist that he can't be told about it.
Roberto couldn't help but make a face while looking at Donald.
- I don't like it but, as I said earlier, your wife is a key character in what my Master prepares. Without her we would still try to launch it but the chances to see the whole plot succeed would be exceedingly small…
A frown was immediately on Donald's brow.
- Plot?
- I won't say a word more but in your private office and after you've sworn an oath I will have shaped for you. I wasn't exaggerating when I spoke of urgency. Why I am here are important affairs that will influence my Country's future. I need to be sure that whatever your final decision is, nothing of what I'll tell you, will ever be repeated.
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- …Never speak about it with anybody but my wife…
Roberto didn't hide that he was bothered but still he nodded and opened his portfolio.
He took out a book and handed it to Lydia.
- Please have a look at this…
Lydia took it and began to leaf through the rather bulky book.
- My God, said she after having read a few pages. This is awesome. You probably know everything about those men.
- Me and my men we have spent almost a year gathering that information. We have been very thorough, and I believe that everything that could humanly be found out about those men has been found out. It could be that some things that had been done in a distant past haven't been unearthed but I really doubt it. We did the best job possible when not having access to some powers Mother Church would have frown to see us use.
Lydia couldn't help but shrug.
- Mother Church is a nest of bigots and hypocrites. Should you ever want to know all the ugly things your Pope has ever committed, just ask. I'm quite sure we should be able to deliver something quite as complete as these life-stories…
- I'm sure of it but there are things you don't want the public to know…
Lydia went back to the book and tried two more portraits out.
- Alright, all those men look like more than decent people. Why did you give me access to their life stories?
- Because one of them will, if our plot succeeds, be adopted by our King and become the next King of Spain.
- And you want me to give you my opinion about them?
- Not in the least, Mrs. Gordon. We want you to decide which of these men has a chance to catch your niece's Jane Darcy's eye and would have a chance to win her over.
Donald and Lydia looked at each other at the same second and both knew that the other had fathomed what was really happening here.
It was finally Donald who spoke it out.
- You want her to become the next Queen of Spain.
- We want the next heiress of the Throne to have the mightiest defenders one can currently find on Earth. We are facing an Ogre of insatiable appetites. We need the best to stop him in his tracks or we will have Joseph Bonaparte as a King.
- He's not the worst of the family, said Lydia. He's smart and his job as Proconsul of Africa has given him lots of experience with managing a country. You could get Murat who's a fantastic Cavalry General but a lousy manager and an even worse ruler.
- Whatever one is nominated, he still will be his brother's puppet, countered Roberto. What we want is a real Spaniard on the Spanish Throne and we want that real Spaniard to have at his side a woman of means whose family has shown again and again and again that they are ready to fight at the side of those of them who need their help. And we really hope that if the King -the future King, I mean- is related to the extensive Darcy Clan, the First Consul will consider him also a member of his family.
He looked at his hists.
- The King, the current King, isn't the smartest of men but he has the health and the shape of a bull. He won't die anytime soon and we have, at least we hope so, a few years to make things a little easier. Alexandra and Jane, your niece, not your sister, have been very close for years and they see each other quite a lot. Should Jane Darcy decide to marry a smart, flashy, and remarkable scion of a lowly Aristocratic Spanish, her cousins would be backing her just because the man in question is what her cousin wants at her side. He would be a nobody with a famous -and rich- wife.
He let out a long breath.
- We are working for the future here and it could be that all our efforts will be, in the end, for nothing. Napoleon could still decide that the adoption plot is inacceptable and crash the whole scheme. But we hope that, with Alexandra and Elisabeth's help their cousin Jane's husband will be accepted and welcomed by the rest of the family. And once accepted as such, especially by Josephine and Alexandra Bonaparte, even the First Consul will look at the move as a wanted one. After all, it would be a member of the family who would climb onto the Spanish Throne.
Donald made a face.
- I'm not one of Napoleon's cronies and I haven't seen him more than a score of times, but if there is one thing, I'm sure about Napoleon than it is that he will see through your plot the moment the present King of Spain choses Janet's husband as his Heir. That man is smart and since he's been upgraded, he no longer has his debilitating illness to smother his mind. He'll know exactly what has been done to force his hand.
Roberto shrugged.
- Will he accept it nevertheless?
- Probably, said Lydia. If there is one pragmatic man on this planet it's Napoleon. He will accept the result of the plot, but he will lay on the new King with all his might and insistence. He will see the opportunity and he will try everything in his power to make Spain the puppet he dreams about.
She leafed through the book.
- We'll have to find a man with a spine and a willpower that hasn't been present in Spain for quite a long time.
Roberto nodded.
- All those men have been wetted to be within the range of males your niece could find attractive. But they are also smart and decided to climb the social ladder as quickly as possible. They will see the opportunity that entering the Darcy nebulae will give them.
- Janet is no fool. She has known for a long time that men she attracted were men of substance and ambition. She won't hold their ambition against them. But she won't take lightly to be taken for a fool.
This time Roberto shook his head.
- Nobody, not even the men within this volume, knows that your niece's choice of a fiancé will also be the choice of the next King of Spain. You, me and Manuel de Godoy are the only people on Earth to know the truth about our little endeavor.
He pointed at the book.
- Your main duty will be to determine which within those fourteen men have a chance to convince your niece that he is what she needs. Once you've decided which of them can compete you'll have to convince your sister Elizabeth to invite them for at least one of the Pemberley winter events.
- Why would she do that?
- Because you will go to her and remind her of your own plot to find the perfect husband and you will provide your sister with a list of twenty males you believe could have a chance to convince her daughter that they are the one…
- I don't have a score of names…
- Not yet, said Roberto while opening his portfolio and taking out another book.
She took it and leafed through it.
- You've been very busy I see… Are those informative sheets as complete as the ones in the first book?
- Almost but since these men come from all over the Continent and beyond, there are parts of their past we haven't been able to survey completely. But all in all, they are smart, flashy and interesting characters that should catch your niece's eyes.
- What if Janet choses one of those?
- It could be, and it is a risk we are ready to take. But it is very improbable! Each of these men are perfect but for one little point we know your niece hates with all her heart. Some smoke, some are womanizers and some tend to be very lose with their personal hygiene. We hope that it will be enough to push her into rejecting them.
- None of your Spaniards has any of those defects, I suppose?
- We've looked everywhere, and we did find the fourteen best qualified men still available on the marriage market in Spain. Your sister will be proud of your work and once your niece is Spain's Heiress you are even allowed to tell the family that it was all your idea… Senor de Godoy has no interest in having his implication known!
- Will the happy couple be informed?
- Do you see any reason that would push us into admitting anything?
- Trust and honesty, said Donald?
Roberto couldn't help but shake his head.
- Trust is good and honesty is a fantastic virtue but in dynastic affairs they are more than often a hindrance. Your wife will be known as the one who has concocted the whole initial plot and pushed it to its marvelous ending. All the romantics around the world will applaud and her craftmanship will be admired. But that should be where the honesty ends! What comes next must never be linked with the initial plot.
He tapped on the first book.
- Once the couple is formed and the wedding is either behind us or in the planning phase, it will be my master's turn to act. He will have to convince the King that said marriage is an unbelievably lucky occurrence for Spain! That by adopting the happy groom, he gets not only a brilliant and successful heir but an amazingly useful link to the Darcy Dynasties all over the world. A link that will protect Spain against France's greed.
There he couldn't help but sigh.
- With everybody else, at this point, everything would have been wrapped in. But with our King it can still be crushed by his inability to make smart and fast decisions. But, should you be able to use the Darcy Family's means to make the event a worldwide festival, even a pusillanimous man like the King should have been able to see the remarkable part of the event. That should be it… And if it isn't, we still will have the satisfaction to have brought two hearts together.
Donald's frown was back.
- You really believe that?
- Not in the least, I would be devastated and probably at the brink of open sedition. To see so many efforts ending in just a trivial wedding because we have the worse kind of Monarch possible would be an undeserved ending for what had been a major endeavor.
He looked at Lydia.
- Will you take over your part of the plot?
She looked at Donald who nodded once.
- We do, said she finally…
She pointed at the two books.
- What have I to do to get you to make the final book with only the ones I want to see at Christmas?
- The books are special constructs! You can easily open them to take out the pages. You can add the selected Spaniards to the second book and should some of my foreign choices seem too ludicrous, don't hesitate to rip them out. We wouldn't want her Grace to be suspicious.
Donald looked at the two books and soon discovered the hidden mechanism.
- Clever apparatus. Spanish made?
- Not at all, you find them in any office materials shop. I don't know who created the original model, but they are quite easy to use. Normally they are used to properly bind and store reports and other business-related studies, but I like to give my work a pristine appearance. The pages were the real thing. Took me and my team quite a lot of time to create and assemble them. If your sister asks, you've tasked Mac Donald and Swann on Ochsen Street with the printing job. They have the machines that can do just that sort of job.
He looked at Lydia.
- Do we have to get a real order with them? Will you sister send someone to verify?
- Don't lose more time than necessary, I won't speak about details. If she suspects anything, I'm quite sure that she has the means to make a lot more fastidious controls than sending people to investigate on Ochsen Street. Let's have faith in my reputation and hope that she will believe me when I arrive with my little story.
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Pemberley – Pemberley Management Office
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Lizzy couldn't help but shake her head.
- You remember where that type of project got you?
- If you remember well, I never really pushed my project to the end. I should have done it. It would have saved me quite a few disillusions.
- And it would have prevented you from visiting the world, writing five books, becoming famous and meeting Donald.
- Probably not meeting Donald, but marrying him, that's quite sure.
With a movement of her hand, she indicated that speaking of her past was not a topic she liked.
- What do you think from my idea? Those men are, if the data that I had about Janet's dreams is true, just the typical male counterpart she'd like to find to found a relationship.
- She has all the time in the world, said Lizzy…
- I spoke with her and it isn't the basic message you can extract form her words. She's not, yet, frustrated, but she's slowly becoming nervous. And, from personal experience that is the type of feeling that got me out there trying things I shouldn't have tried.
Lizzy frowned and was clearly searching for words.
- I know you believe she's not like me but there is no "like Lydia" or "like Betty", there is just a young woman who sees lots of romantic relationships blossoming around her and whose patience is running out. Especially with protocol driving her mad.
She pointed, once more, at the book.
- It's perhaps not the most natural solution but it has an efficient elegance I quite like. I'm rather proud of the result of my work.
- You've done that alone?
- No, but I will never denounce my co-perpetrators, there is honor amongst matchmakers!
- Will I have to ask Fluffy to investigate the business?
- I wouldn't want to see you disappointed but I'm quite sure that Fluffy will have to refuse. There will be an immediate conflict of interests.
- I see, it's a cousin-fomented plot. I suppose Lexi's on board too.
- As I said, I won't denounce my accomplices in that particular plot.
Once more she tapped on the book.
- You've lots of time to leaf through the book and decide who you want to see and who you really would prefer to never meet. You could even ask Geoffrey to have a look at them. I'm quite sure he could corroborate quite a huge part of what we discovered about those interesting gentlemen.
Lizzy took the book and leafed through it for the tenth time.
- Jane doesn't need our help…
- Not needing help is not the same as not being able to be appreciate it, answered Lydia. I know that mothers tend to not see the truth when said truth isn't in harmony with what they wish but in Janet's case you should perhaps just begin with a lengthy conversation with her. Ask the right questions and you'll probably be surprised by the answers you'll get.
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Jane couldn't help but laugh aloud when reading certain remarks about the would-be male pretenders.
- And that is Lydia's work? God she's becoming good at a lot of skills. I already knew that she had a talent for writing non-fiction but this is impressive.
- I'm impressed too but not by her way to interfere with Janet's life.
- You should give the book to Janet and let her chose the ones she wants to meet.
Lizzy's shock was so visible that it brought Jane to laugh out aloud.
- It's not a catalogue, Jane…
- Yes, it is and it is remarkably well constructed. I know that I would have loved to have something like that when I was fantasizing about the young males in our neighborhood.
Lizzy looked at her sister with amazed eyes.
- You fantasized about our male neighbors. You never told.
- It would have been unseemly to admit it even to my preferred sister. Well educated young girls don't have fantasies turning around boys and young men.
- I had, smiled Lizzy, I still remember Josh Appleby…
- And Eddy Longtree… Had I had that sort of book I would have laughed at my silly puny dreams.
Jane went on reading and couldn't help but comment while pointing at a portrait.
- Whatever you decide to do with this book but this one I want you to invite! Either he is the world champion in disguise, or we've got ourselves another Knight in shining armor. I can't just believe that that sort of guy still exists…
She looked up.
- Or had ever existed…
She went back leafing through the book and once more she shook her head.
- By God, those Spaniards are from another planet!
Lizzy came over and looked over her sister's shoulder to read the same biography.
- You are right his life story is amazing. And his physique is…
She wriggled with her eyebrows while snickering.
- Very Darcyesque, indeed! One could think that they have been selected to look like some gentlemen we know quite well.
Jane let out a long breath and began to search out the other Spanish candidates Lydia had selected. And soon the sisters were nodding in unison.
- That, sister dear, is not a coincidence. We need to talk with our husbands.
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If Fitzwilliam was frowning, Geoffrey was visibly delighted.
Darcy couldn't help but look at his brother in law with a shocked frown.
- This is not a coincidence, they are tying to manipulate my daughter, monsieur d'Arcy.
- I could ask Fluffy but even without sending her, I'm quite sure this book has de Godoy written all over it. She could have a look at de Godoy's thoughts but I'm quite sure that I know what he wants to do and if you are right about the manipulation part of the plot, I think we should concentrate on what said plot is revealing us about the Spaniards real plans…
- And what would that be?
- I think our dear manipulative Spaniard has entered a phase where he wants to create the foundation of a new future Spanish Dynasty. I think dear Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia…
He stopped and blew out…
- Whew, that was a mouthful. Let's be less expressive and use simpler terms. The King of Spain Carlos the fourth, has clearly reached, even in Manuel de Godoy's mind, the end of his tenure. And Manuel counts on your daughter to select the best candidate to replace him. Which is a shrewd move if you allow me that little pointe.
Fitzwilliam and Lizzy frowned in a remarkably similar way which brought a smile on Jane's face. Fort a time she wondered if the same had happened with Geoffrey and her. Had they now the same facial expressions?
- The question we need to answer before any other, added Geoffrey, is 'what do we want'? We have, because of de Godoy, what I must call an opportunity.
He winked at Fitzwilliam.
- I know that, when it is your flesh and blood who's at the center of the incoming opportunity it is not easy to look at it with any distance, but it still is an opportunity.
He looked from Fitzwilliam to Lizzy.
- It is an amazingly easy question: "Do you want your daughter to be the next Queen of Spain"?
He took a long breath.
- I admit that it is a very troubling choice to make. Not because I don't see Janet as perfectly suitable in that role but because I'm not sure that we, as a family, are ready to see one of our own move into something that has been, for centuries now, a mess of epic proportions.
He looked at Jane who took the floor.
- Janet is of age to enter a new phase of her life, Lizzy. And, for a few more years, if we treat Geoffrey a little differently since he is already the Heir to Wales, she is the last Darcy available on the marriage market. And the fact that de Godoy is doing everything in his power to get Spain to seize that last opportunity is a clear sign that it is, even if it stresses you as parents, a political reality we need to face. Spain wants to use us Darcys as the shield we have built these last decades. In Spain's case it is to be protected against Napoleon who has been very successful in terrorizing them. I'm quite sure that others, in the future, will have other motivations to build links between them and members of the family.
She couldn't help but let a long sigh escape.
- Our daughters are all remarkably interesting pawns on the marriage market. I won't say that I like it but there's nothing we will be able to do to prevent attempts to use them to bind us to other ruling families. They are and will stay at the center of Earth's political realities… There can be no doubt on the question. Mine are already gone, so it is a easier for me to speak about it, but I'm fully aware how you must be feeling, Lizzy, to see foreigners trying to use your daughter to their own benefit. But I do fear that from where we are now, it is unavoidable.
- What if she is not interested, said Lizzy in a rather muted voice.
- Than, answered Geoffrey, she will make her own decision. We don't need Spain, if Janet decides to resist to that manipulation attempt it won't change anything for us or the extended family.
- But will she resist, insisted Jane. Whatever you can say about Manuel de Godoy, he has been very thorough while choosing the candidates he wants her to meet. I've looked at them, she will have huge difficulties to find better-suited or better-mannered pretenders.
- She's not ready, whispered Lizzy.
- Of course, she is, said Jane, it's us who are not ready to let them go. But, one day or the other they will go.
- And, insisted Geoffrey, that's not what we have to discuss. What we need to decide is if we stop the whole circus here or if we consider the proposed hidden deal. If we look at it cynically, it is about the Throne of Spain entering the Darcy family, after all.
He stopped and winked at Fitzwilliam.
- Do we really want a grandson of Fitzwilliam Darcy on Spain's Throne? It will only be in around a hundred years but we still will probably be here then and we will have to put up with him?
Fitzwilliam shot him a dark glance.
- You are not funny…
- Indeed, but I'm right on the spot of today's problem. De Godoy's plot has its sunny sides, we should at least try to look at the consequences in case it happens…
Both Darcys intervened together to answer.
- It's prep…
- It's impos…
- It should be worth a try, said Jane covering both their protests. Why not let the plot untangle itself and see what happens? If Janet doesn't even look at one of them, we are out of trouble without having had to quarrel about what should have stayed a Darcy personal matter but has too many implications to be only that. Should Janet fall for one of them, it won't be a catastrophe, don't we agree?
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Adults are clearly too dependent of their feelings…
*Link* who had always a part of it roaming the Ether to hear what the normals out there were thinking had known about de Godoy's plot as soon as Lydia had arrived on Pemberley's ground.
And it had generated something *Link* had, until now, never experienced: inner strife between parts of *Itself*.
It had been a surprise for the collective because until there the collective, what was called *Link* had only always had one logical opinion. This time there was an intern opposition coming from the *Darcy Sublink*, supported by the *Biorna Sublink*.
Forced to appear by the occurence of the Darcy and Biorna *Sublinks*, other *Sublinks* had blossomed. Especially the *d'Arcy Sublink* and the *Duroc Sublink* who weren't as engaged in the controversy as the others but still of the opinion that for the family having Janet sitting on the Spanish Throne would be a good thing.
*Link* had been properly flabbergasted the moment he had seen parts of *Itself* expressing opposing opinions.
Not that it shocked it, feelings weren't its forte, after all, but discovering itself in such a weird way by having *Sublinks* that were able to stop being obedient subordinates was a weird feeling.
Weird but also incredibly positive since it didn't smother or diminish the community *Link* was but gave underparts of it the possibility to express opposing points of view. And it was refreshing to have, for once, real smart logical partners.
The worst, or the best, being love, said the *d'Arcy Sublink*. They let their feelings get in the way of logical thinking. It is logic to see Janet's new opportunities as a big advantage for the family.
It's not the family who benefits most, said the *Duroc Sublink*; It's Mankind. With Janet at the side of the future Spanish Monarch we boost the chances to have the major ruling Houses determined not to make decisions that would rush the planet into war.
It is also the way I see the deal, said *Link* who really enjoyed having the possibility to discuss things with parts of itself. We have currently family links within the ruling families of Britain, France, Turkey and China. The only great Empire we don't have within our family links' net is Spain, and de Godoy's plot is offering us the very best way to get there. What could be better?
Janet could be unhappy with the deal, said the *Darcy Sublink* who was, to *Link*'s surprise composed of the four Darcys who were part of It.
How surprising that you are all four together…
It could be because of the blood we share with the victim…
There is no victim, protested the *Duroc Sublink*. It is an opportunity for Janet and de Godoy has really done a lot to get her a husband she could not only respect but like. You've read the excerpts like everybody else. If they are as they have been described, they are remarkably interesting.
Janet is, perhaps, not interested, insisted the *Darcy Sublink*
The *d'Arcy Sublink* was immediately there.
You know better than that, don't you? She's been of two minds for months now. She would like a romance like Betty's and Lexi's but she's also scared to have to make do with a political marriage. The de Godoy plot gives her, for the first time, a real chance to get both at the same time.
I'd say we work on that Rodriguo guy, said the *Gordon Sublink*. He's perfect with his brawny dark physique and, if what de Godoy has found out about him is true, he's a lot like Fitzwilliam Darcy… And since it is said that daughters always look for their father in their pretenders, he should be the ultimate candidate.
I'd say we follow de Godoy's script, said *Link*. Give her a choice and let her decide which one she prefers. It's not up to us to make the final decision. I think that too many people have already messed this affair up. Let's Mom Lizzy invite them and once they are here, it will be up to us. We will have every opportunity to look into them to decide which ones need to be thrown out of Janet's life.
We still should warn Janet, said the *Darcy Sublink*. We owe her that, she's a kind and loving sister…
If we warn her, it will mess with her mind and she will make decisions based on her duty to the family. As long as she knows nothing, she will just be facing a few new brawny male pretenders this time of Spanish ascent. Don't you think it will be better to not fill her mind with things she doesn't need to take into account right now?
It feels like a trap…
It is a trap! But it could be Janet's very last chance to find a husband who's worthy of her. If we destroy this plot, she still will have to marry one day and should she decide that the perfect man for her doesn't exist, she will begin to think about doing her duty for the family. Which is the same as what de Godoy has planned but with a husband material she will no longer even consider… Not titled enough, you know.
I cannot overcome the feeling that we are betraying her, said the *Darcy Sublink*.
Let's do what we do best, countered *Link*. Let's forget those feelings that interfere with the normals' minds. We have the great chance to be able to lift ourselves over what makes normal Human Beings' lives so utterly miserable. Logic is our weapon of predilection. And Logic is on de Godoy's plot side. And if we do our job as we know we can it will also be in Janet's interest. She dreams about a romantic marriage with a man of substance and wit. Let's find him for her…
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