I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.

They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.

I've never been able to control my public image.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.