The Steinhouse mansion remained quiet and no one stepped out despite the curfew being removed. Lady Steinhouse did not understand what the men could be discussing all morning, but she noticed when they left to their various rooms later on. She wanted to take this moment to meet with Walter, when she was informed her uncle was here to see her.
"The king?" she asked. Why? Her uncle had not come here since he brought her to marry the dying Lord Steinhouse on his sickbed. She noticed that only one carriage was outside, and frowned. He came without his entourage?
She rushed down to receive him, but he had not stepped down from his carriage. She approached the carriage sitting in her compound and bowed.
"Uncle, why have you not come in?" she asked.
"Helen, clear the way. I must enter unnotic
