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WHEN FATHER didn’t want to eat anymore, Ellisandra wiped his face and his hands and took the tray outside. Enzo followed close on her heels, and when she closed the door, he asked, “Why don’t you let Darma do this?”
“She snipes at him and doesn’t do the job properly. You know last time when his skin got covered in rashes because she didn’t wipe his face, and he came to the theatre like that and Ariandra Hirumar commented on it at the Ladies’ Ball, and next thing I knew I was a bad daughter neglecting her father? Well, I don’t want that again.”
“Then we get someone else. You know I don’t want you doing this, Elli. We have servants for this work.”
“He scares them all away. We burn through servants like straw. Some of the ones we’ve lost were quite good in all their other work and I wou
