Chapter 47
"It’s a bit windy today, isn’t it? It’s good we got up to wash our garments now. I noticed some shirts in your room. Did you get them from the market?" Janice asked, unable to forget the shirts belonging to a man in Rose’s room.
She didn’t mean to pry but it was hard to ignore what she saw. The guards didn’t speak to her or Rose so they shouldn’t have given their shirts to Rose though she was the maid.
"They were a gift since I didn’t have a dress to sleep in. They are of too good quality for me to just use them," Rose answered. She still thought of giving Zayne back his shirts since she had not used any of them.
Rose had only tried one one to see the difference in size between her and Zayne.
"Well, I certainly understand not wanting to ruin something of good quality but if they were given to you as a gift then I don’t see why you cannot use them. Use one at a time and when it looks ruined then you can start wearing another. Think of how you are wasting something good someone gave to you with good intentions," said Janice.
Janice would love to get her hands on good shirts to change them into something else. If Rose would allow her, she would add designs to the shirts to make them look less for a man.
"I hadn’t thought about it like that. I will be careful with them and use them as they were meant to be used. They are quite large, but I think it would be wrong to have you change the size. What if he were to want them back? I cannot afford to replace them," Rose said, still worried about the price.
Janice helped Rose put up the last of the dresses and then said, "Then I remind him that the shirts were a gift. Wear them as you see fit. Now, let’s go inside so I can get started on dinner and you can finish putting away what is in the crate by the door."
Rose walked beside Janice back to the door. It was a good change of pace to talk to Janice instead of being here with the two guards who still looked at her with so much hate. "Janice, does it not scare you to work with someone who is not from this land? Many are still avoiding the foreigners."