Chapter 250: Surprisingly, Nothing
Rose paced her room for the most part of the morning. Time flowed a little too slowly. She couldn’t count the number of times she pulled the letter out of the envelope to stare at the words, trying her best to recall exactly what Thomas had said as he read the letter.
Sometimes, she would walk towards the window to stare out of it, and without meaning to, she started thinking about if it would be easy to escape this room.
She was on the first floor; getting down didn’t seem to be a problem. She could always use the drapes—she could rip and tie them together to form a rope.
The problem was that she wouldn’t even get to the ground before she was spotted. Daytime was completely out of the question, but guards patrolled the castle during the night.
If she did manage to get to the ground, the dogs would get her—and even if the dogs didn’t, Rose couldn’t scale the castle walls. And if there was a side door she could use, she didn’t know where it was or how to unlock it. It was a terrible plan.
She turned away from the window and folded her arms. The only thing she could think about was escaping on the way to Futherfield or while in Futherfield.
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That was why she needed to find out all that she could about Futherfield, but she couldn’t go around asking questions. She couldn’t give Caius a reason to suspect her.
Rose was still lost in thought when a knock echoed in her room. She pushed herself from the window and walked to the door. She didn’t get to it before the door opened and Welma walked in.
Rose stopped abruptly as she stared at the maid. Her expression didn’t say anything, but she didn’t have the restlessness in her eyes as she had that morning.
"You look better," Rose commented.
"You look worse," Welma replied.
Rose shrugged. "I thought the next time I’d see you, you would be missing your head—but yet here you are. You owe me again."