"What has Agnes said now?"
Irene caught Felix walking down the hallway towards the dining hall, but she pulled him into the sitting room before he could go forward.
The situation hadn't improved.
The Duke remained sick and out of everyone's reach. However, the apprentices and a couple of the maids continued in their observation of the new maids since they were the only ones allowed to enter the Duke's bedroom.
Where they came from was a mystery. How the Duchess found them when she had been bound to the Duke's Tower for the entire winter never became clearer.
All they could do was go on as if nothing was the matter, but it didn't suit the apprentices who were always antsy to get to the bottom of everything.
Felix was caught off guard for a moment, not expecting anyone to interrupt his path forward. He had not only been asking Agnes for information, but doing other things the two of them tended to get up to when they were together behind a closed door.
