"Mei Meili, are you feeling better?" the Princess chirped, trying to change the highly charged subject of Miss Mei's marriage partner.
She placed a basket of fruit by Meili's bedside. "My Second Brother's been keeping me blow-by-blow informed of course," she rolled her eyes in his direction fondly. "He wouldn't even let me come and visit you before now, so my apologies it's taken me so long to come by."
"Princess, thank you so much for taking the time to visit and there was really no need. As you can see, I'm almost better, thanks to your Second Brother. If it wasn't for him, I'd have drowned for sure."
"Pei, pei," said the Princess, lightly patting her mouth in a superstitious gesture designed to avoid bad luck. "Don't say that it's bad luck. It was clearly not your fate to drown in that lake. Yicai tells me your Chow Chow kept you afloat until he could rescue you?"
