Even though this was a bad occurrence, it totally solved the issue of Melvin. Melvin never talked to her again after this. He was so ashamed of what he did.
A classmate of hers, Serena, had been a good but not close friends with her. She thought she’d tell her to come and live with her. Before she did this, she wanted to study Serena first to know the kind of girl she was.
Among the things she found out was that Serena was acquisitive. She could do anything for money. She was of the middle class but desired to be in the high class. She said she must marry a duke even if he was old. She told her a story about a particular time that a man from Vastaland paid her to act like she was his wife so the man’s dying father would leave his inheritance to him. The man’s father had insisted the man
