Nellie remembered that she was supposed to be serving, so she left to go to the kitchen, still feeling uneasy.
She remembered playing with Henrik—amongst a big group of other children—when she was little.
On second thoughts, her father did keep her away from other kids, because you’re old enough to help your mother in the kitchen.
What if it hadn’t been about helping her mother at all?
She remembered vividly the day she heard Henrik was getting married. She had already been living with Mistress Johanna, but the news had made a little sad spot inside her. Not that she had hoped he might marry her, but because it didn’t look like she would marry, ever, because maids who lived with the family they served rarely married, and Nellie needed to live with the family because her own family had
