Nothing much changed immediately after that.
When he asked Sam to stay, Calvin was only motivated by practicality. He had grown used to at least the household running like a well-oiled machine. He didn’t feel like he could say the same thing about the company he was in charge of.
He was also sick and tired of servants scurrying around in fear, more often than not close to tears, reluctant to even hear out his needs whenever there was no one else around to serve as a buffer.
It frustrated him that they were so worried. Yes, he was also short-tempered like his mother, but he had never developed a taste for terrorizing people for sport.
Not that he thought that was what Mrs. Palmer was doing. She was just very particular, that’s all. She demanded perfection from those around her, and sh
