Evan pov contd
"You are right my lady. Even after knowing that she was a slave. He asked us if he could eat with us and even tried to tell us. We are respectable people. So, we bore the insult and just ignored him. We did not say a word to him. Nor did we try to beat him." she replied in a righteous tone and the duchess frowned.
"Why? You have treated her very generously. By any chance are you weak to deal with the slaves?" she asked and the girl shook her head.
"No my lady, we have pushed him whenever he crossed our path and even did not give him anything to eat. He even slept out on the tree without anything to cover himself."
Taking the silence of the duchess as encouragement, she finally spoke about everything that she was trying to hide so much. I could never understand how humans even think even though I was one of them.