Meanwhile the same could not be said of what was going on in the other part of the house.
"You mean that cripple was still in the dining room when you left?"
"Mmm-hmm, do you have a problem with that?"
"How can you leave her alone with them?"
Mrs Bertrand stared at Regina as if she was looking at a joke. "What would you have had me do? And in what capacity was I to ask her to leave, hmm, tell me?"
Regina had nothing to say as what the cook said was the truth. She had no right to ask her to leave when she wasn't Mr Fitz. Besides, it was Mr Brandon himself who asked her to stay, from what she heard.
"Arrgh! Why does she get to eat with them on the same table?" Regina kicked the chair in the staff dining room and instantly yelped in pain.
Mrs Bertrand, the cook, shook her head in pity. "You'd better come to terms with the obvious. I wonder what you are so angry about?"
