Sophia put on quite a show; her self-inflicted wrist wound had yet to heal, but she turned around, tears brimming in her eyes, looking gratefully at Florence.
"Thank you so much for bringing Lancelot to the hospital. If anything had happened to him, I would really..."
Tears silently fell from Sophia's eyes.
"Stop pretending," Florence said, unwilling to see her like this, and turned to leave.
*****
The servant who had worked for the Foster family for over twenty years rushed over.
"You should go back," Lancelot said, leaning against the hospital bed and flipping through contract documents.
Sophia hesitated, "Lancelot, I..."
"Sophia," he interrupted, "I told you last time, if it weren't for you, I would've drowned. You saved my life."
Sophia stood there, clutching her sleeve, speec
