The next day, I woke up in a bad mood and knew it was because of last night's incident with that shameless audacious man, but that was not all. My mother noticed that something had happened in Tristan's room, because after slapping him and saying those hurtful words, he looked at me sadly for a few seconds without being able to say a word, before disappearing from the room without waiting for me to open the door. My mother was close enough to see Alexander's drastic change of mood when he left, and although she looked at me questioningly, I preferred not to bring up the subject. What was I going to tell her? How was I going to tell her? My mood improved a little when I arrived at the trial and saw the Lancasters looking miserable, with no trace of makeup on their faces and their imper

