Maybe she will break the curse.

Hayley didn't want to say anything but she also couldn't stop herself, this was the matter of her life and death! After all, she has been chasing after the Duke for so long, if she couldn't appear in front of him then what will she do? So, she ignored the stern gaze with which her aunt was looking at her and said, " Aunt can you please listen to me first? I know that I was wrong and I won't do it again but can you ask the Duke not to punish me like this? I really, really had no wrong intentions, I just said those things because I was worried about the young master, nothing else."