Raylene Was Disheartened

At around four in the evening, when the sun was not as harsh as in the daytime, the little girl finally decided to venture outside her room.

When Mrs. Jacinth offered to walk with her, she refused her kind offer and informed that she wished to be left alone.

"I will visit Demon and come back soon." Yvonne explained the reason for not bringing her old maid along which softened the aggrieved frown that had come upon her nanny's lips.

'Why am I surrounded by such pouting children?' She wondered while waving at her maid and then strode through the corridors, towards the entrance of the mansion.

As she walked, she recalled another pouting child she had to deal with a few weeks ago.

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When Yvonne had decided to talk to her mother and try to explain how the Countess needed to stop being stubborn about Howard returning to the Mansion each week, she did not know that it would be such an arduous task.