Part 40

This went down badly with Madam Jolie. Her sentiment was that she was a very important person in the village, so she should get her requests granted. For this reason as well as for the reason her child’s father was a titled man of first class emissary. The sentiments most young women had, in Madam Jolie’s village about entering into a relationship with titled men was that it was a thing to covet; to be attached to a chief of first class emissary. But  it also depended on how wealthy the chief was and the kinds or amounts of respect he garnered amongst village dwellers.