The General's Wife Wants to Leave-Chapter 226: Lost track

The young lady’s room was filled with refreshing and soothing fragrance that came from the liquid that she diligently applied in her hair and body, and Lucy found herself fond of inhaling that, although it had wafted into the room towards her nose uncountable times now.

"So, how is it now? Can Bianca handle them?" Lucy, whose hands were busy massaging her young lady’s scalp and applying her long, thick, dark hair with the essential oil-based liquid, heard her young lady ask.

Lucy nodded her head vigorously upon the question she heard. "That old witch... Oh..." Lucy took an abrupt halt from both gritting her teeth and moving her hands on the young lady’s hair before bowing her head politely as she realized with whom she was talking.

Glancing at Lady Joanna, who looked at her in astonishment through the mirror, Lucy hurriedly said with her head and volume of her voice lowered. "Apologize, my lady. What I mean to say... Ms. Nancy was angry at Ms. Bianca. She said that Ms. Bianca doesn’t have any right to meddle with any business in the capital’s house because it is under her authority as the head maid."

Lucy spoke with all the fire blazed inside her but reminded and controlled herself to keep the manner and propriety in place, remembering with whom she was speaking, as she still wanted to be of service to her kind young lady for a long time. For Lucy, to work with Lady Joanna de Lara was something to be grateful for, as it could be counted as rare to be employed by a reputable family of high society who did not disregard people whose social status was below them.

By doing that as well, she would not get scolded by Bianca if she happened to know about her impolite manner.

"And then..." Joanna pushed Lucy to tell more.

Directing her gaze along Lady Joanna’s hair as she did not dare to look straight at her young lady’s eyes as per the propriety she had learned, she continued to speak, giving her young lady information that had disturbed her since they arrived at the capital’s mansion.

Bianca had prevented her from reporting their young lady anything about what happened in the mansion due to her condition that shocked all of them who saw it after the royal banquet, mainly concerning that she needed to rest more.

However, Lucy’s emotions got provoked when she watched how rude that old witch named Nancy was toward Bianca. The way she spoke in a loud pitch and was disrespectful to Bianca, who gave a piece of advice in all tender and polite manners, although Bianca was four years older than the old witch and had worked with the de Lara before her, made Lucy run out of patience.

Both of them were regarded as senior maids of the de Lara’s household. One was assigned to handle the de Lara’s household in the capital, while one was in Barasca. Both were assigned the same responsibility and duty about how to manage the household. But that old witch felt more superior because she was assigned to the capital, overlooking the fact that Duke John de Lara ruled the duchy in Barasca.

What made Lucy upset more was that the butler seemed to defend that old witch a lot, not even trying to be fair without siding with one party.

When Bianca and Lucy just arrived at the capital’s mansion, from the outside, the condition of the mansion looked tidy and well-maintained. But deeper inside, particularly in the area that had a small possibility of being occupied or inspected by the master of the house, including the kitchen and empty rooms, they were a complete mess and looked abandoned.

Hence, she got her mouth loose, forgetting the warning Bianca told her to keep her mouth shut. She was too in fury. Although she knew that Bianca would scold her if she knew that she had reported all of that to Lady Joanna, Lucy had made up her mind and prepared herself for that. freёnovelkiss.com

What she wanted at the moment was for her young lady to discipline them all, stopping them from behaving arrogant and impudent, as in Lucy’s eyes it was not fair for them to not work properly while they were being paid regularly and treated well by their employer, although the capital’s mansion was seldom to be occupied by their master or mistress, else from the fact that the capital’s mansion size was smaller than that in Barasca.

"Ms. Bianca said that she would not meddle in anything if everything was already in the right place. For your information, my lady, since we arrived here, Ms. Bianca found them not working properly." Lucy began to report to her young lady, believing that her young lady was capable of disciplining and putting them all in their place.

"Most of the time we found them idle. If they were idle but the mansion was organized well, Ms. Bianca would not have bothered to say anything. What made Ms. Bianca have a need to talk to them more was because she could not prepare food for you, my lady, and also master in that kind of mess and dirty kitchen." Lucy recalled the moment when she helped Bianca tidy the kitchen with the help of a few maids, regardless of whether they assisted without complaining or not.

"And Ms. Bianca got annoyed at them when, instead of working, they were busy comparing Sir Canillas and Sir Marvin. They even bickered and made noise in the kitchen when one disagreed with others. And what was severe was that that old witch... oh... Apologize once again, my lady. Ms. Nancy and the maids who were one voice with her were busy ogling Sir Marvin when he was here and Sir Canillas when he returned this afternoon. They even said that th..."

"Wait, Lucy. What did you say just now?" Joanna interrupted, disrupting Lucy, who was on fire, to talk more.

"They even said that th..." Lucy was about to continue her speech, as she thought it was what her young lady asked for. But she got interrupted once again.

"They ogled at Sir Canillas when he returned this afternoon?" Joanna asked for confirmation, frowning at the surprising news she heard. And what surprised her was not about how they ogled at her husband but the surprise that her husband went back home this afternoon.

But to Lucy, she thought that her young lady did not like the point of them ogling her husband. Hence, Lucy felt that she got the chance to get more support from her young lady to leash her anger on that old witch and her supporters.

"Yes, my lady." Determination was clear in Lucy’s voice and facial expression. "They ogled at Sir Canillas. Ms. Bianca said that it was presumptuous conduct to do over their master. But they were angry back at Ms. Bianca. They..."

Joanna lost track of Lucy’s outburst. She did not hear of anything coming from her anymore as her mind was stuck in the news about Canillas going back home this afternoon. Yet he did not come to see her.

It was for sure that he had left home again, as she did not see him at all after Marvin left. He left home without meeting her. The crease between Joanna’s brows deepened at the realization.