Chapter 17 part 2
Unlike usual, the hallway of the annex was crowded.
‘They’ve already changed the bedroom.’
The busy servants looked back on me once in a while.
“What do you do without starting a fire in the fireplace? Are you telling me to freeze to death?”
I heard a hysterical high note from the bedroom at the end of the hallway, which was originally my room.
The voice that looked so much like Shannon was clearly Camilla.
It seems that my luggage had already been moved by Penny to the Countess’ bedroom.
‘This is bad. Will the Madam of the house get used to the annex?’
Well, that’s not my business!
I grabbed the corner of my mouth that kept going up and headed for a servant.
“P-p-please s-s-send th-this letter t-to the m-m-monastery.”
“Yes, Lady. I understand.”
It was a time when I handed a letter to the servant, who kept glancing at my face curiously, and turned to my new bedroom.
I encountered a welcome person at the corner.
“Hi, Emma”.
Emma, who ignored me like air and passed by, stopped.
“Emma, have you seen my maid yet? She said she wanted to hear my story about the martial art competition, but is she too busy for that?”
“……”
Emma’s fist trembled.
I heard from Penny that Emma, a baron’s daughter, was very displeased that Penny, a commoner, became an official maid.
That’s why I wanted to scratch her gently.
“You’re Shannon’s maid, so I hope you get along with Penny.”
“……”
“Emma, I don’t really hate you.”
Looking at Emma’s back, I quietly moved my lips.
“Even though you tore my dress to pieces.”
“It’s not me!”
Emma, who looked back at me, shouted almost as if she was screaming.
“I didn’t do that!”
Emma’s face turned white because she had been reprimanded for it while I was away.
“Penny, that crazy girl is trying to put it on me! That girl ripped your dress!”
The attention of the servants was focused on this side at once.
“Penny is the only one who can enter your closet. I really didn’t do that!”
“Okay, I got it.”
As I nodded in surprise, Emma turned around as cold as the wind blew.
I felt a deep anger at Emma’s step who was walking like running.
It was clear what that child would say to Camilla without having to listen.
* * * * *
“Anything else good happened? You’ve been laughing since earlier, My Lady.”
“We moved our bedroom. What’s better than that?”
The Countess’ bedroom was more colorful than expected.
It is true that it looks tacky in my eyes, but it was a hundred times better than the gutter-like bedroom in the annex I originally stayed in.
Most of all, what I liked was the view of the garden from the window.
‘All I could see from the annex was the stable only.’
It’s still a wasteland because it’s winter, but I imagined a garden where purple flowers would soon bloom.
“My Lady, Madam is such a scary person. She came from the capital city.”
Penny whispered anxiously behind me, who was almost stuck to the window.
“I don’t know what will happen if you don’t listen to her, my Lady.”
I stared at Penny’s proper young face reflected off the window.
“So… Don’t get on her nerves for no reason.”
Does Penny know Camilla is good at poison?
Suddenly, I remembered her confession that she had replaced the poison the original Selina was trying to drink.
Come to think of it……
‘How did she know that?’