Emma White never expected that the person who had just been driven out of her home would reappear in the Jennings Family's garden within less than an hour.
Shock was evident on Emma White's face. In just a second, her gaze involuntarily fell on the middle-aged woman beside her, who was obviously dressed like a nanny, and she instantly understood.
This woman must be Scarlett Garrison's birth mother.
A housemaid.
After all, coming from a rural area, finding a decent job would be difficult; serving as a housemaid here was quite respectable.
Isolde Garrison had apparently guessed as much.
She felt disdainful and amused inwardly, but her face showed only sympathy and concern.
"Sister, so your family works here. But this is the Jennings Family's place—you must be careful not to touch anything. It would be terrible to cause them trouble."
The butler, who was leading the way, heard this and grimaced slightly, about to explain something, when Scarlett Garrison spoke up indifferently,
"Don't bother."
She paused, then her clear, bright almond eyes shifted from behind Isolde, to the faint grey shadow that was almost clinging to her back. Scarlett raised her eyebrows slightly and said,
"If I were you, I'd be staying at home right now. Not wandering around aimlessly."
Back home, she had left behind the Protective Magical Artifact she made, which would keep ordinary ghosts at bay. But away from there, it was a different story.
Emma White saw that her attitude was still infuriating, even after acknowledging only a nanny as her mother, and her face nearly contorted with anger. However, considering the Jennings Family's butler was present, she managed to restrain herself, turning to advise Isolde instead,
"Isolde, you're good-natured, but you must also distinguish who's worth it. Wasting your words on an ungrateful wretch is pointless."
She then turned to the butler to explain in a helpless tone,
"How embarrassing. This is a child that our family adopted. It's disheartening that after all the effort raising her, she turns her back on us once she finds her birth parents. She was always misbehaving, clumsy with everything. We might have toleranted her in our own home, but in someone else's, who knows what trouble she might cause."
Emma White looked genuinely worried, but her implicit message was almost plain—keeping such a person might spell trouble for the Jennings Family.
The butler inwardly felt shaken.
Does Mrs. Garrison not realize that this lady in front of us is the Jennings Family's daughter who was finally found after much effort?
To slander the young lady right in front of him, the butler, made him wonder what kind of life she had previously endured with the Garrison Family.
The butler, who initially treated the visitor with the utmost hospitality due to the Garrison Family's care for the young lady, now turned colder.
Emma White, believing the butler's coldness towards Scarlett was because he took her words to heart, sneered inside.
She wanted to see this ungrateful wretch thrown out, to see if she would dare to have the same attitude towards her in the future.
As for giving up the representative spot, Emma White felt that with the Jennings Family's backing, there was no need to waste words with her—a mere spot, Isolde wanted, she could simply take.
The housemaid, who had stood quiet ever since Emma White and Isolde approached, hadn't made a sound. Jennings Family had many rules, and servants generally didn't speak casually with guests.
But the more she listened to the guest's words, the more they seemed off.
What she said... seemed to refer to the Jennings Family's daughter who had just been found.
Oh, this...
Unable to help himself, the butler began to speak, "Mrs. Garrison, Miss Garrison, you..."
He barely started when another voice interrupted.
"What's going on?"
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