[Titanic] Harbor

On a rainy night, Elizabeth's door in London was knocked.The maid opened the door a crack—and standing outside was a steady gentleman—Elizabeth's brother—Carl Hockley.

Karl came alone, and he frowned a little anxiously.He held a black umbrella, so he was basically not wet. "Ah sir, please come in."

This maid was chosen by Karl for Elizabeth, who knew Karl because she served the master at Hockley House.

Carl steps into Elizabeth's house.The rooms are clean and tidy.When the door is viewed, it seems to form two worlds with the miserable wind and rain outside.

It seems that Elizabeth is doing well.Carl made his own judgment.

"Ah! Brother, why are you here? Quickly, Lydia, pour my brother a cup of hot tea." Elizabeth had already fallen asleep, and when she knew that Karl was coming to visit, she only had time to put on a napkin. robe.

"No need." Carl waved his hand and told the maid to go down.

When he was sure that the maid was completely out of his sight, he said to Elizabeth: "You have achieved nothing in London. This is too different from what you promised me. Elizabeth, Dweck died some time ago, no Does it have anything to do with you?"

Elizabeth pursed her lips, looked at her brother helplessly, and took off her responsibility as much as possible: "Baron Dweck has offended too many people. I...never thought of it."

She peeked at Carl's expression, and her brother's expression looked as good as the weather outside.

Elizabeth was a little flustered, and she added quickly: "I will find a better helper soon."

Carl was noncommittal to Elizabeth's words.This young man has a lot more accumulation than when he was on the Titanic.He was no longer determined, thinking that the whole world would give in, and his methods of doing things became more tactful.

"The family's business is down. But you don't have to worry about it. I recognize you as my sister, not because of your business methods." Carl's voice sank, and he seemed to be more concerned about how to get along with a lady. Thoughtful: "I just want to ask you, the Baron's death..."

His eyes were fixed on his sister, and Elizabeth could hardly hide under his gaze.

She only felt that her mind was blank, and she replied to Carl, "I didn't mean it."

It wasn't intentional, it was an admission.

Carl stood up very disappointed, and said to Elizabeth: "I didn't expect you to become such a person." He sighed lightly, "Hey, there is no need for you to dirty your hands."

The wind and rain were still outside the window, and the light in the room seemed to be gradually dimming.

For Elizabeth, the most terrifying thing in the world is to let her brother down.

But in the end, she still didn't meet her brother's expectations.

Before she knew it, tears were streaming down her face.She choked up and cried like a child—"I'm sorry."

A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the rainy night in London.

Then, there was the sound of thunder in Tianbian City, and Elizabeth woke up from her dream, with cold tears still hanging on her face.

It's just a dream.

Elizabeth hugged the quilt and looked coldly at the rain outside the window.She probably did something wrong.But fortunately, those who knew are already dead.

It has been raining for the past two days. In fact, rain is a natural thing for London.

But for Rococo, it's not so wonderful.

She's tired of playing with stupid mice lately.Turned to find trouble with the several horses raised by the Green family.

And the mouse that always pretended to be dead was no longer so scared when he saw Erica.Although it was still a little far away from Erica, it finally stopped pretending to be dead.

congratulations.

Erica was holding a cup of black tea, nestling in a corner of the bedroom, and reading the work reports of the past few days by the lamp of the bedside table.

The Privy Councilor came in with a dozen documents in his hand.

If someone had told him before getting married that working in his bedroom would be the most efficient, he would not have believed it, but now, almost all the work Green brings home is done in the bedroom. ——The study room has been vacant by him for a long time.

Erica was always attentive when reviewing documents.She will not look up at her husband in the interval like ordinary wives, and then warmly praise: "Honey, you look so beautiful at work."

For Erica, all she had to do was carefully review the documents, and after reading this one, she would look at the next one.

Instead, it was Green who occasionally looked up from his official duties to see Erica's serious look. "It's already night, and you're still drinking black tea, so you can't sleep right now."

"Yes." Erica said perfunctorily, then unconsciously picked up the teacup and drank the tea in it.Her attention was always focused on the document in her hand, and Green's words just drifted past her ears, but she didn't actually listen.

Green came over speechlessly, and took the cup from his wife's hand.

Only then did Erica's attention shift from the document to Green with difficulty.Her brain was still thinking about the contents of the document she saw before, and after a few seconds, she asked strangely: "What's the matter, Damon?"

Seeing his wife's dumbfounded look, the Privy Councilor thought it was cute.

In the past twenty years, he never imagined that he would have to compete with piles of documents for his wife.

Erica saw that Green seemed to be caught in some kind of strange memory.She had to think about what Green had said to her just now, and then realized with shame that Green was telling herself not to drink tea before going to bed. "Okay, I know I'm wrong. However, tea leaves don't work for me."

Green put the bone china teacup next to the bedside table.When he looked back, Erica was immersed in the world of documents again.

Now, you probably know why Green is most productive in his bedroom.Because Erica wouldn't take the time to pay attention to her poor husband until the work was done.

Erica's work is usually done within two hours.When she finishes, the rest of the time will be time for husband and wife to interact.

The last ten minutes passed quickly.Green also completed the work at hand with the fastest speed.Then the two of them sat together next to the pile of soft pillows and started the daily reading session.

The Privy Councilor took out a collection of poems from the pile of documents he brought into the room, he casually flipped through a page, and then slowly recited in his deep and elegant voice:

——Night Breeze sighs softly, whispers even softer on the waves...May those lips never let out a sigh, eyes wake up and never cry again...

After Green finished reading a poem, he just wanted to say something to Erica when the housekeeper knocked on the door.

"Come in."

"Master, a night visitor came to the manor. She said that Madam is in a hurry."

"At this time?" Green frowned, "What kind of person is it?"

"...She said her name was Caddy, and she used to be Madam's maid. She said she had important news to tell Madam."

Katie... Erica said the name in her head.She and Green remembered the maid at the same time.They looked at each other, and then the Privy Councilor said, "Please come in."

For this reason, Erica had to tidy up and return her own clothes, and then solve someone else's problem on this night when she was about to fall asleep.

When Erica and Green got ready to go see a maid.Caddy has been restlessly waiting on the sofa for a long time.

She was not surprised to see Erica and Green coming hand in hand, she should have known the news for a long time.

But she looked very cramped, more restless than she had been on the Titanic before.Her hands stirred her own clothes, and she looked much more haggard than before.

"Katie? What happened?" Erica walked to the maid.

"That's right..." Caddy looked at Green, and the Privy Councilor also looked at her.She flinched, and stammered to tell Erica why she came.

With her current husband, listening to the secret of her ex-fiancé's death made Erica feel very helpless.

Caddy is not actually stupid, and almost all the servants are not.They are only limited by their status or surrounded by old ideas, so they dare not go against their masters.

There is just one thing, if these servants face threats to their lives, a large part of them will still betray their masters.

That was the case with Caddy.

Elizabeth secretly poisoned Baron Dweck at banquets again and again.

The poison was indeed colorless and tasteless. Many times, Kaidi watched her hostess pour the poison in secret. She only needed to shake the wine in the glass slightly, and the white powder seemed to never exist.

The baron, who had been drinking, was still talking and laughing in the crowd, so that Kaidi occasionally had the illusion that her current mistress was just having a little awkwardness with the baron.

Kaidi's heart slowly relaxed.

But one day, unexpectedly, news of the Baron's death came.

"I'm scared...Miss, I'm scared." Caddy tremblingly described to Erica how Elizabeth committed the crime.She seemed so helpless that she had come to beg her previous master to save him.

Erica calmly listened to Caddy's words.She turned to look at her husband.The Privy Councilor was completely shocked by Elizabeth's behavior, and he didn't seem willing to comment.

So Erica asked, "So Katie. You came to me and told me about it, not just because you were scared.'

"No... That's right." Caddy didn't wait for Erica's generous help as she imagined, so she had to go on and say: "I know I shouldn't bother you. But... But Miss Elizabeth, she wants to kill me!"

Erica nodded noncommittally, and she held her forehead a little depressed, "Does everyone in London know that I have a bad relationship with Elizabeth now? Or is she always mentioning me behind my back, really!"

"I can help you call the police. But this matter has nothing to do with Erica from the beginning to the end. Your pleading for help is unreasonable, and I don't think we can help you."

In principle, as a maid, it is simply impossible for Kaidi to be received by the hostess and hostess of the manor.But now that this incident has happened, and the Greens already know something they don't know, then they can only try to solve it.

"Since you have escaped, you will be completely free for the rest of your life. You can choose to find a job for yourself, marry someone, or uphold justice for the baron. I think it is the most meaningless thing for you to come to us .”

Erica actually knew that Caddy wanted to take her in by herself.She hopes to use this secret to change a job for herself.

But Erica couldn't have someone like that.Caddy had betrayed Elizabeth and might betray her in the future.Erica could understand how she sold the original owner's information like this, but she couldn't accept it.

"You can rest assured. I will immediately forget what you said to me." Erica stood up with Green after saying this.

This conversation is over.

The butler silently made a gesture of seeing off the guests.Although Kaidi was apprehensive, she could only leave obediently.Her attempt failed, but there was always someone willing to take her in.The maid thought so, and left Green Manor in the dark.

"I really didn't expect that the baron's death was because of Elizabeth."

"Hearing you say that, I still think it was my hands and feet." Erica joked along with his words.

"It's been said in the social circle before." The Privy Councilor said to Erica as he walked, "But I don't think I will ever make you sigh."

"Okay..." Erica couldn't bear the numbness of the Privy Councilor.Damon has grown to the point where he can say nasty things without reading a love letter.Maybe it was a wrong idea for her to ask him to read some poems before going to bed. Although Damon's voice is getting better and better, but... I seem to be more and more unable to resist his charm, okay!

"Stop chanting Byron's poems, your voice is charming enough to be embellished with them. Say something meaningful."

Erica opened the bedroom door and said, "I'll bet you five pounds it's not over with Elizabeth. Even if we don't get involved."

This is a matter of course.

There was a maid who leaked the secret. The story of Elizabeth poisoning her boyfriend spread throughout London within a few days.Whether Katie got a job, Erica didn't know.

But all she knew, the last thing she knew about Elizabeth, was that Carl had found her a well-known lawyer.

Hockley's era has passed, and they may still be able to support it for a while, but Erica's plan for the second half of the year already has a detailed plan for mergers and acquisitions.

She had always had a good memory for the things that Karl had troubled her on the boat, and she still remembered them all.