Dinner was ready. Anna went over to the dining room and began to set the table, she checked time and wondered what was keeping Cordelia so long at the mistress’s chamber. And just when the thought finished occurring to her, the woman appeared by the doorway. “Here you are!” Anna gasped with relief, her gazing sweeping all over the woman. “What took you so long?” she asked, her hands going akimbo at the question.
“I’m sorry, my dear. I wasn’t feeling too well and so I decided to rest my head for a while in my room,” Cordelia replied. That reply was a lie cooked in truth. Cordelia was actually fine, until she had entered the mistress’s room and got exposed for confirming to Anna there was indeed a prisoner in the castle. She had cried her eyes as she begged for the mistress’s forgiveness, s
