Chapter 207: Golden Opportunities

By the time I showered, pulled a brush through the snarly unhappiness of my thick, auburn hair and dressed in a few layers of fluffy fleece while my shocky body struggled to get warm, Mom had whipped up a lovely dinner of fresh pasta and garlic bread, while Daisy quietly guided the new staff out of the kitchen so Mom and I could be alone. I found I missed the grumpy old ladies who used to work for me, both Betty and Mary Jones retired officially four weeks ago, though they'd agreed to come back from time to time if I needed their help. Things had changed so much, the new cook, Clara, and the four young chamber maids whose names I was still trying to recall (like pinning tails on a donkey sometimes and more often than not got wrong or mixed up) firmly placed on Daisy's list of things to handle so Fee didn't lose her mind.