Chapter 127: She Won’t Be Coming
"Lily!" Rose called in shock. However, her presence wasn’t the only thing that was shocking. In her hands was a tray, and the contents were a kettle, a cup, and a plate of food—it was clear it was just a single serving.
"What are you doing ’ere?" Rose asked, but she stepped aside to let her in. Lily hasn’t brought them meals in a while so for her to do this something must be wrong. Rose felt her heart squeeze.
Lily didn’t move; she just stood by the door. Rose didn’t know how to interpret this, so she decided to take the tray from her. Surprisingly, Lily let her.
"Where is Edna?" she asked as she held the tray, a little scared to ask the question.
She looked down at the contents. The tray was quite heavy, and she wondered how Edna would easily carry this all the way from the servants’ quarters to here.
"She won’t be coming," Lily said.
Rose froze, then slowly lifted her head to look at Lily. Something told her it wasn’t that Edna was simply returning to her duties now that Rose was back to good health.
"Why?" she asked softly. She almost didn’t want to know.
Lily’s face darkened. "I told her to be careful. You shouldn’t have let her leave as often as she did. I also thought the matter was behind us. It’s been nearly a week. If she wanted to do something about it, she could have done it that same day. Why now?"
"I don’t understand," Rose said as she shuffled on her feet with the tray in her hands. As much as she wanted to step inside and place it on the table, she didn’t want to miss any information Lily would give. "What did you say ’appened to Edna? Why isn’t she ’ere?"