Chapter 9: Equal Treatment
The carriage Aletha was in finally arrived at the palace. It came with a lot of luggage.
Arabella could see it from one of the windows near her room. She didn’t personally go and meet Aletha since she was the Empress of Valeria now.
She couldn’t just go and meet a maid personally. She had to act like a proper noble lady and just wait for Aletha to see her in her study.
Eunice had shown her where her study was just the other day since she would soon begin learning about her Empress duties which she actually knew already and was very experienced with after twenty-two years of marriage with Ferdinand.
Meanwhile, it was only from Ferdinand’s thoughts where Arabella learned Aletha would arrive by this hour today.
He only told her Aletha was probably going to arrive by today or tomorrow but she learned the truth from his thoughts anyway.
Once Ferdinand’s estimated time closed in, Arabella pretended to go on a walk so it would seem like a coincidence she witnessed Aletha’s arrival.
She couldn’t show too much favor to a maid since it would make the others feel envious and jealous and might end up doing all sorts of things to bully the said maid.
It already happened before. There was once a young maid assigned to her in Lobelius since she was promising despite her age.