Chapter 25

The maids were hastily running around, the housemaids scolding them for being too slow or moving too fast, Thomas...

Decorations, people bringing foreign objects around, cleaning, excitement...

It was the night of the ball.

“Lady Charlotte’s not here, so at least you don’t have to do any preparations for her.” Jenny was telling Della while trying to fold a big silk scarf.

Even though Della was helping Jenny often, Oliver had found out the girl was, in fact, Lady Charlotte’s first maid.

“How come isn’t she here?” Oliver asked.

“She left for the countryside two days ago.”

“But I suspected she’s supposed to be here as well?”

Oliver inquired again. “

She normally is,” her first maid said, “but she hasn’t been feeling very well recently and the lord advised she&rsqu