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The Man I Saved Burned My Family
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00:09To be continued...
00:30...and tossed a gold coin.
00:31The coin struck Alice's cold body with a dull thud.
00:36Clean this up properly.
00:37Don't let Victoria see anything unisely.
00:41Back then he'd collapsed at the door...
00:43...of my herb-gathering cottage in the woods.
00:45Poisoned half to death, I watched over him day and night.
00:48He gave me a badge, engraved with his family crest.
00:51A token of his word.
00:52Damien, is that the saviour you spoke of?
00:55She looks rather like a beggar.
00:56A country herbalist's daughter.
00:58Does she even deserve to be called my saviour?
01:01If I weren't afraid she'd take that badge and barge into the London season...
01:04...dragging you and me both into scandal.
01:06I wouldn't spare her a second glance.
01:08I thought I had saved a fallen gentleman.
01:10Who would have guessed?
01:11What I nursed back to health was a wolf that devours without leaving bones.
01:17I carried Alice home on my back.
01:19The house had already been burned to ash.
01:21My parents' bodies lay in the ruins, charred beyond recognition.
01:25I did not cry.
01:26Tears cannot bring back my family.
01:27I died a grave with my bare hands.
01:29I buried Alice beside my parents and found a stone to serve as a marker.
01:33He swore, word by word,
01:35Alice, father, mother, wait for me.
01:37Wait until I have destroyed everything they hold most dear.
01:40They titled, I turned without looking back.
01:42I walked into the vast, blinding snow.
01:50I walked into an abandoned church, packed with the displaced and the destitute.
01:54Dangerous.
01:55Walking at night in a snowstorm like this, why not huddle up with us?
01:58I'm an herbalist.
02:00Sprains, frostbite, fever, cough, I can treat them all.
02:03In exchange for two loaves of bread and a mouthful of hot water.
02:06Mother, please, save my child.
02:09I pressed my hand to the child's forehead and checked his pulse.
02:13Find an iron kettle, boil three cups of water down to one and get it into him.
02:18Mother.
02:19Then did the people in the church begin to trust me, one by one.
02:22They came to have their injuries treated.
02:26Child, your skills are impressive.
02:29How did you end up like this?
02:31My family is gone.
02:33Someone had them killed.
02:34These days, it's always the poor who suffer.
02:36Those with titles and land, what do they care whether we live or die?
02:39Take the Duke of Ravencroft.
02:41Ambushed on the northern border three months ago, barely survived.
02:43Came back to London and married the Lord Chancellor's daughter.
02:45Brother to the king, decorated war hero.
02:47The whole of London bows to his shadow.
02:49And he dotes on that Victoria of his.
02:51The entire social circle knows it.
02:53Word is he dismissed every old servant in the household for her sake.
02:56I sewed the badge, engraved with the Ravenclaw family crest, into the lining of my undergarments.
03:03This badge is my shame.
03:09On the road to London, at every town I passed through, I visited apothecary shops, village doctor surgeries, and second
03:15-hand bookstalls.
03:16I no longer devoted myself solely to the art of saving lives.
03:19I began to study how the very same herbs could kill a person without a sound.
03:24How to brew a draft that mimics death for 12 hours.
03:27How a single silver needle could induce labor, unconsciousness, even harm an unborn child without reading a trace.
03:32To test my formulations, I drove myself to the edge of death the first time I tested the death-feigning
03:38draft.
03:38But that time I misjudged a dosage.
03:40When I woke, it was already the dead of the following night.
03:44My body was rigid.
03:45I had nearly frozen to death.
03:47The moment I came to you, I coughed blood and cried for the first time.
03:50Because I thought of Alice.
03:52When she died, how much pain she must have felt.
03:54How terrified she must have been.
03:56I wiped my tears, recorded the residual dosage, and reformulated.
04:00Along this journey, my herb satchel grew heavier by the day.
04:04I wore through one medical text after another.
04:06Until at last, I arrived in London.
04:09I knew that as I was narrow, I needed a new identity.
04:12One that could walk through the doors of Ravencroft House.
04:16That day, I was passing through a narrow alley when I saw a group of ruffians kicking and beating an
04:20old woman.
04:21She clutched a wooden box to her chest.
04:23I rushed in.
04:24A few needles and the ruffian's limbs went numb.
04:26They staggered off cursing.
04:28I crouched down and helped the old woman to her feet.
04:30Her face bore several old scars, running from the corner of her eye down to her jaw.
04:35I helped her back to the crumbling room nearby, cleaned her wounds, and applied a poultice of herbs.
04:40Mrs. Morrow told me she had once served as a dressing maid to the queen,
04:43and that she was skilled in disguise, voice alteration, and the manners of the aristocracy.
04:48Three years ago, she had offended Victoria.
04:49Victoria found a pretext.
04:51She had Mrs. Morrow's faith flashed.
04:53One eye pull out, her tongue cut so her voice was ruined and then cast her from court.
04:57She survived by doing up the faces of women.
04:59The moment I heard the name Victoria, my heart slammed against my ribs.
05:02That night, I brought half a bottle of cheap gin and told Mrs. Morrow everything.
05:07Mrs. Morrow drained the gin from her cup and slammed the tin knife on the ground.
05:10A brute draped in a nobleman's coat.
05:13A duchess fattled on other people's flesh and blood.
05:16I should have died three years ago.
05:18Child, if you need to have your revenge, I will help you.
05:23So long as I live to see Victoria fall from her heights,
05:27this broken body of mine is a price worth paying.
05:31Mrs. Morrow began to teach me disguise, voice alteration, accent mimicry, and control of
05:37posture and bearing.
05:38She also taught me the rules within aristocratic households, the hierarchy of servants, and
05:43the filthy secrets hidden behind respectable facades.
05:46Her art of disguise was a craft carried out from the palace itself capable of transforming
05:50a girl of 17 into a woman past 30.
05:53At first, I learned slowly.
05:55The resin adhesive wouldn't hold.
05:57The wrinkles I painted looked stiff and lifeless.
05:59I practiced the hunched gait until my back was covered in blisters of raw, bleeding skin.
06:04The hardest part was the voice.
06:05Every day I practiced with mute leaves pressed against my tongue, and I did not stop even
06:09when my throat bled.
06:10I had no time to rest.
06:11Alice was still beneath the ground, waiting for me.
06:14My father and mother's deaths were still unavenged.
06:16After a year of training, I could shift between identities with ease.
06:20I gave myself a new name.
06:22Susan Marsh.
06:23I would wear this false face into Ravencroft House and dismantle them from within, piece
06:28by piece.
06:30Before long, the name Mrs. Marsh had spread.
06:33Wives of minor government clerks and merchants began sending for me as well.
06:36The first time I attended the wife of a senior treasury secretary, I walked into a twin birth
06:41god mom.
06:41I steadied the mother's pulse with silver needles, then manually repositioned the babies.
06:46The secretary's family was overwhelmed with gratitude.
06:48He sang my praises at his gentleman's club, and at dinner parties.
06:51I gathered intelligence on the great families, especially Ravencroft House.
06:55I learned that Victoria had finally fallen pregnant, that the pregnancy was unstable.
06:59You incompetent fool!
07:00That royal physicians were attending high martation.
07:04The duke's mistress, Rydia Captain the East Wing, was also pregnant.
07:08Yet she lived in conditions worse than a servant's.
07:12Rose beaten death by Victoria, then thrown out onto the street.
07:17Thomas, whose parents were driven to their deaths by the Ravencroft estate flanned agent.
07:21Catherine, whose father was framed by Damien and widdered away in despair.
07:25I took them in.
07:27I placed Rose in the mistress's residential floor.
07:31I placed Thomas in the kitchens.
07:33I placed Catherine in the butler's office.
07:36They did not know I was Eleanor.
07:37They knew only that Mrs. Marsh could help them have their revenge.
07:40Only late at night, when I peeled away the resin and salve, and my fingers traced the scar on my
07:45wrist where I had tested Damien's poison against my own blood.
07:47Only then did I remember who I truly was.
07:49Damien grew frantic.
07:51He stationed royal physicians inside Ravencroft House around the clock.
07:55Whoever could ensure the safe delivery of the Duchess and his heir 1,000 gold coins.
08:00And through apothecary shops, parish priests, and migwifery circles, quietly put out a bounty.
08:12I raised my hand and under the stunned gazes of the crowd, gently peeled off the notice from the wall.
08:17I'd brought the notice, still bearing its Ravencroft whack feel, to the side entrance of Ravencroft House.
08:24You're the one who took the notice. You don't look like someone with any real skill.
08:27Sir, my name is Susan Marsh. Three generations of midwives in my family.
08:31So long as the Duchess still draws breath, I can ensure both mother and child are delivered safely.
08:34Bold words. Come in then. But if anything goes wrong, it's your neck.
08:39I kept my head low and followed him through colonnaded corridors, past gardens and fathoms.
08:44Every inch of respectability in this estate was stained with my family's blood.
08:53At last I saw him. Damien.
08:58He was more imposing than before.
09:02Victoria, these were just picked from the hothouse. Sweet with a touch of tartness. Try one.
09:06I don't want any. They're far too sour.
09:08The Duchess who destroyed my entire family out of jealousy.
09:11Damien, is this midwife reliable? She's not another fraud, is she?
09:14Susan Marsh, at your grace's service, and her grace's.
09:18But he looked away almost immediately. He did not recognize me.
09:22The herbalist's daughter who had saved him bare-faced, thin, clean.
09:27Eleanor, wait for me. I will come back to repay you.
09:31How could she possibly be this coarse, wrinkled woman bowing and scraping before him?
10:00I will do everything in my power to ensure her grace and the child are delivered safely.
10:05And so I stayed. I became the Duchess's personal midwife.
10:09Victoria was impossibly difficult to serve.
10:12Every day I brewed herbal tonics for her, massaged her swollen legs, pressed too hard and slapped it land.
10:18Your filthy hands are hurting me.
10:20Aside from Victoria, I also happened to tend to Lydia, Captain East Wing.
10:24She was Damien's mistress installed within the estate.
10:27Low-born, unfavored, and now pregnant with no one to care.
10:29Whenever I brewed tonics for Victoria, I would quietly set aside a bowl and carry it to the East Wing
10:34under cover of night.
10:35You're the only one in this househouse who treats me like a human being.
10:39You're carrying a child. Take care of your health first.
10:43I'll help you.
10:47Victoria's child, also a boy.
10:49Lydia's child, on the other hand, the pulse was steady, the positioning ideal, and I had more than enough means
10:54to collapse that fortnight into a single day.
10:56A night of crashing thunder and driving rain, Victoria was seized by unbearable pain.
11:00Her waters broke.
11:01The entire state erupted into chaos.
11:03Amy and Ravencroft stood outside the birthing room, acing back and forth in a friend's...
11:06Save the Duchess! Save the child! Or none of you will live to see mourning!
11:12Save me.
11:14Mrs. Marsh, save me.
11:17Inside the birthing room, my hands were slick with blood.
11:19This moment, she was no longer the chest who looked down on the world from her gilded height.
11:24I directed the hand-binate and precision-boiled water passers the same time.
11:27I caught the eye of another hand-binate with a discreet glance.
11:30He was one of mine placed inside the estate long ago. Within this estate, there were many more like her,
11:34all of them biding their time for the moment vengeance could be struck.
11:36Your Highness the Duke, Miss Lydia of the Eastern Wing has been startled by the thunder and is now in
11:40labour.
11:41All of them lying in wait. One word came from the East Wing.
11:48Your Grace, the Duchess will not deliver for some time yet. The East Wing has also gone into labour.
11:53The child Lydia carries is your flesh and blood as well. Perhaps you might allow me to look in on
11:57her.
11:57Get out.
11:58Damien's mind was consumed entirely by Victoria.
12:01He waved me off with an impatient hand.
12:04Good boy. Your fortunes are about to change.
12:09...draught.
12:10A tincture brewed from Belladonna birthing linens, concealed him beneath her rain-soaked cloak, and followed me back to the
12:15Duchess's birthing room.
12:16Victoria was still screaming, her voice shredded raw.
12:18Several handmaidens and midwives turned to look at me.
12:21Hush.
12:21I can see the head.
12:26As I spoke, I drew a silver needle from inside my cloak and drove it hard into a critical point
12:30between her lower back and abdomen.
12:31He's here. Congratulations, Your Grace. A boy.
12:37Good. You shall be handsomely rewarded.
12:39In the same instant, I delivered the child that had been prepared all along from beneath the bedding.
12:44Damien was so elated he nearly lost his composure.
12:46He snatched the child into his arms.
12:48In Victoria's true child, I returned to the birthing room and looked at Victoria, still unconscious.
12:55I delivered the stillborn, placed it into the wicker basket I had prepared beforehand.
12:59When Victoria woke, what she saw was Damien cradling a healthy, robust son in his arms.
13:04She did not know.
13:07My child.
13:10Mother's precious child.
13:12The infant in her arms was born of the very mistress she despised most, just as she had once ordered
13:16my Alice thrown into that same pit.
13:18Lydia had hemorrhage during a difficult labor.
13:20Mother and child, both dead.
13:23The baby, too, was stillborn.
13:25As for Lydia, the next day, word came from the East Wing.
13:29Lydia had hemorrhage during a difficult labor.
13:31Mother and child, both dead.
13:33The baby, too, was stillborn.
13:35Damien did not even go to look.
13:37And Lydia, feigning death, had already been smuggled out of Ravencroft House by my people under cover of night.
13:43When she woke, she would find herself in the countryside, hundreds of miles away.
13:47This, perhaps, was the last shred of mercy I still possessed.
13:50As a healer.
13:52From this day forward,
13:53Victoria would pour everything she had into raising a mistress's son to inherit the title.
13:58And this was only the beginning.
14:00I would make every person in this estate who owed a debt, suffer a fate worse than death.
14:04I would climb, step by step, until I stood above Victoria's head.
14:11Ravencroft House held a grand celebration.
14:13The priest christened the child before the assembled guests,
14:16inscribing his name into the parish register and into the Ravencroft family ledger.
14:20The child was named Nolan.
14:22From that moment, Lydia's son became the legally recognized heir to the Ravencroft title.
14:31Victoria, you've given me such a fine son.
14:36You must have suffered greatly.
14:38I stood in the corner, attending them, I stepped forward.
14:41Under the pretext of offering a handkerchief,
14:44I gently brushed aside the swaddling behind the baby's ear.
14:47They're a tiny brown mole.
14:48Lydia had an identical mole behind her ear.
14:51What an uncommon little mole behind her master's ear.
14:55I recall seeing one just like it in Lydia.
14:58And I attended her in the spring.
15:01Damien's movement stilled just barely.
15:04The child is distressed.
15:06Take me away.
15:06I won't have anything seen with my guests.
15:08The smile on Victoria's face froze.
15:11She glared at me with venom, but did not dare make a scene.
15:15Not here.
15:16Not in front of Damien.
15:17She could only clutch the still-wailing infant and withdraw.
15:22Someone, give her twenty flashes with the board!
15:26The rough wood struck my face, searing, burning.
15:28But I did not make a sound.
15:30Every blow I added to the legend.
15:32Victoria.
15:33The harder I am beaten,
15:34the more cruel and unbecoming you appear in Damien's eyes.
15:42Victoria startled.
15:43Damien, this servant is being innocent.
15:45I was merely just a feeling.
15:47Susan Marsh is Nolan's midwife.
15:49And the woman who saved his life.
15:51If you treat servants this savagely and word gets out,
15:53how will that reflect on the Ravencroft name?
15:55He glanced at me.
15:57Go and have your injuries tended to.
15:59Thank you, Your Grace.
16:00As I rose on it, an old scar.
16:02That scar on your hand.
16:04Your Grace, it's...
16:05It's an old wound from gathering herbs years ago.
16:11Damien began visiting the private quarters more frequently.
16:14Not always to see Victoria and the child.
16:17More often, he came to see me.
16:19I did not make my disguise appear younger.
16:21I only changed one thing.
16:23I wore again the herbal scent I had always used in the woodland cottage.
16:26A faint trace of mint and mugwort.
16:29Cool, calming.
16:30Victoria could not detect it.
16:32But Damien could.
16:33One afternoon, Victoria had taken the child to visit the Pemberton family.
16:39Ravencroft house was unusually quiet.
16:41Damien sent for me.
16:45But his eyes never left my wrist.
16:47Mrs. Marsh, the scent of herbs on you.
16:49It reminds me of someone I once knew.
16:52Your Grace flatters me.
16:54A coarse woman such as myself could hardly compare to anyone you once knew.
16:58Three years ago, I was attacked.
17:00A girl who gathered herbs saved my life.
17:03She had a scar here, identical to this one.
17:06A pity she took the token I gave her and tried to use it to climb her way into the
17:09Ravencroft family.
17:10Nearly dragged me into a scandal.
17:12I despised being manipulated, so I paid her no further mind.
17:14So that is the lie Victoria spun for you.
17:17You sent killers to silence me, yet she made me the villain.
17:20So that even in death, I would carry the name of a grasping, low-born schemer.
17:24The person your graces speaks of, would her name be Elinor?
17:30How do you know that name?
17:33Because before I came to Ravencroft house,
17:36I saw a dead girl in the pompous pit behind the parish cemetery outside the city walls.
17:41She was clutching a badge in her hand,
17:43so tightly that even death could not pry her fingers open.
17:47That badge bore the Ravencroft family crest.
17:49What did you say? She's dead?
17:52Yes. Dead.
17:54There wasn't a patch of unbroken skin on her body.
17:57It looked as though she had been beaten to death.
18:00The beggars nearby told me that girl had been waiting for her sweetheart to come for her.
18:04She waited until she died. He never came.
18:07She said she didn't covet wealth or station.
18:11She only wanted the man who had promised her forever.
18:14His face was ashen.
18:15In that instant, I knew he was remembering the body thrown into the pauper's pit that night.
18:20People always beautify the one who died because of them.
18:23The one they can never have again.
18:24And what I was doing now was forging that remorse into a blade aimed straight at Victoria's heart.
18:30That night, Damien drank himself into oblivion.
18:33He did not go to Victoria's room.
18:35He stayed in the study.
18:36I went in to bring him a sobering tonic.
18:39Through the haze of drunkenness, he seemed to see me as the dead Eleanor.
18:42He seized my hand and pulled me into his arms.
18:46Eleanor.
18:47I'm sorry.
18:49I failed you.
18:50I did not push him away, but neither did I yield.
18:52My fingers threaded gently through his hair, but my eyes were cold as ice.
18:57When he tried to go further,
19:00I shoved him back and struck him hard across the face.
19:04Your grace, look clearly.
19:07I am Susan Marsh, not your Eleanor.
19:12That slap sobered him.
19:14For men like him, what comes easily is never treasured.
19:16Only the thorned, the one who refuses him that is what he cannot let go of.
19:20He stood frozen, watching me flee with my clothes in disarray.
19:24The desire in his eyes did not fade.
19:26It burned stronger.
19:27That was the hunger to conquer.
19:28Damien fixed his attention on me.
19:29He began finding excuses to bestow gifts upon me with increasing frequency.
19:33Jewelry, bolts of fine cloth, even rare and costly herbs.
19:37I refused them all.
19:38The more aloof I appeared, the more he could not relinquish the pursuit.
19:42Meanwhile, Victoria, because of the child, grew more volatile by the day.
19:46The boy carried Damien's blood, true enough, but he had been raised into a frail constitution
19:50and with my quiet interference kept perpetual ill, crying through the nights.
19:55Victoria was worn haggard by the ordeal.
19:57She looked half mad.
19:58The contrast between us sharpened.
20:01Damien grew more impatient with her by the day.
20:03On one side the gentle, sensible, Mrs. Marsh, carrying the ghostly shadow of an old regret.
20:09On the other a hysterical Victoria, capable of nothing but complaints.
20:13I wore a thin white dress soaked through and stood in the rain,
20:16holding an umbrella over a rose bush the storm had bent sideways.
20:20That rose it was Eleanor's favorite.
20:23Damien came toward me with his umbrella.
20:25He looked at the slender, stubborn figure standing in the rain.
20:28I did not push him away.
20:30Don't go.
20:31This time, don't leave me again.
20:36Alice, do you see?
20:38I have him.
20:39I have caught this wolf.
20:40I am going to tear his heart out and lay it at your grave.
20:43But the face that surfaced in my mind was Alice's.
20:46Desperate.
20:47Dying.
20:49I became Damien's mistress.
20:51But I did not ask for a title.
20:53So long as I may remain at your grace's side,
20:57and atone for the sins of the past,
20:59I am content.
21:00He began to favor me exclusively.
21:03He even rebuked Victoria for the first time on my account.
21:05Mrs. Marsh is in poor health.
21:07Stop making her do rough labor.
21:09Damien, she is nothing but a common midwife.
21:12You would scold me for her?
21:15She is more sensible than you.
21:17She has more kindness in her than you.
21:19She has more...
21:20Every time, Victoria shook the fury,
21:22and in the places Damien could not see,
21:24she devised ever more inventive ways to torment me.
21:35Three months later,
21:36while paying my respects to Victoria,
21:38I collapsed in front of the assembled household.
21:47The royal physician was summoned.
21:49He took my pulse.
21:51His expression grew complicated.
21:52His head...
21:57Congratulations, Your Grace.
21:58My felicitations.
22:00Mrs. Marsh...
22:01is with child.
22:05Dead silence.
22:06The teacup in Victoria's hand slipped and shattered against the floor with a sharp crack.
22:10At last.
22:11I am with child.
22:12This is my baby.
22:14And it is the greatest weapon I possess to take everything from them.
22:17Victoria.
22:18Your time is running out.
22:20The news of the pregnancy fell like a drop of boiling oil into Victoria's already smoldering
22:24mind.
22:25She began to lie awake through the nights.
22:27The handmaiden on nightwalk reported that every evening,
22:30the sound of shattering porcelain came from the duchess's bedroom along with cursing.
22:35She called me a base woman.
22:37A whore who had seduced her master.
22:39To soothe me,
22:40Damien sent gifts into my rooms,
22:42like a river in flood.
22:43That was the color Victoria favored most.
22:46The one she used to proclaim her status.
22:48I wore it deliberately,
22:49and I wore it on the nights Damien stayed.
22:51That night,
22:52Damien traced his fingers over the red fabric.
22:54This is Marsh.
22:56You look beautiful in red.
23:01More beautiful than Victoria.
23:03Your grace is too kind.
23:04The duchess is your lawful wife.
23:06How could I dare compare myself to her?
23:09If she found out,
23:10I fear she would have me kneel on broken porcelain again.
23:14A few days prior,
23:15I had been a moment too slow bringing tea,
23:17and Victoria had forced me to kneel on shard.
23:19She wouldn't dare.
23:20That mad woman.
23:21If she touches you again,
23:22I will not show mercy.
23:24I will peel them from you.
23:25Layer by layer.
23:27That day,
23:27Victoria could bear it no longer.
23:29She made her move.
23:31It was a bowl of egg custard sweetened with honey.
23:34The one who brought it was Daisy Victoria's senior handmaiden.
23:39Mrs. Marsh,
23:40the duchess,
23:41had the kitchen pair this specially.
23:43She says it is to nourish your health.
23:45Beneath the cloying sweetness,
23:47a faint metallic bitterness.
23:49Arsenic.
23:50Victoria.
23:51Oh,
23:51Victoria.
23:51You truly are desperate now.
23:53Watching me grow more favored by the day,
23:55my belly swelling larger,
23:56while Nolan wailed and sickened without end,
23:58how could she not be desperate?
23:59She feared that if I bore a son,
24:01it would threaten Nolan's claim as legitimate heir.
24:03She feared I would replace her,
24:05become the mistress of Ravencroft House.
24:08A pity.
24:09Her terror had only just begun.
24:13Please thank the duchess for me.
24:15Only,
24:16my appetite is poor at the moment.
24:18I think I shall rest a while first.
24:20Daisy fled as though granted a pardon.
24:22The moment she was gone,
24:23I drew a silver needle and pierced the custard.
24:26The needle blackened almost instantly.
24:28I overturned the trade,
24:31then pinched the soft flesh of my inner thigh with savage force.
24:34Please help me.
24:37Someone.
24:38The baby.
24:40My baby.
24:42Damien came quickly.
24:43When he burst in,
24:44what he saw was this.
24:50Mrs. Marsh.
24:51He rushed to me and gathered me into his arms.
24:53His hands were shaking.
24:55What happened?
24:59The custard.
25:00The custard.
25:01The custard the duchess sent.
25:03She wants to kill me.
25:05To kill our child.
25:07Victoria.
25:11Wait here.
25:12I'll be back.
25:14Send for the royal physician.
25:16Now.
25:16I heard it all.
25:18From the direction of the duchess's chambers,
25:20the thunderous crash of a door kicked open.
25:22It wasn't me.
25:24Damien, believe me.
25:25It truly wasn't me.
25:27How pale a denial.
25:29In Ravencroft House,
25:30the truth has never mattered.
25:31What matters is who holds more favor.
25:34Who appears more the victim.
25:36And besides,
25:36the custard had indeed been sent on her orders.
25:39Witnesses.
25:40Evidence.
25:40All accounted for.
25:42Damien would not believe her.
25:44Just as he had not believed me all those years ago.
25:46An hour later,
25:47Damien returned.
25:49Carrying with him the faint scent of blood.
25:55Don't be afraid.
25:56It's been dealt with.
25:58Victoria has been stripped of all standing for her depravity.
26:01For conspiring to murder my own flesh and blood.
26:06She has been confined to the cold room in the West Wing.
26:09I have given orders.
26:12Without my express permission,
26:14no one is to visit her.
26:18Even if she dies,
26:19she dies in there.
26:23Your Grace,
26:25the Duchess is still Nolan's birth mother after all.
26:29Don't speak that woman's name to me!
26:32If not for Nolan's sake,
26:34I would have run her through with a blade today.
26:36That boy,
26:38she's ruined him.
26:39Timid,
26:40cowering,
26:41not an ounce of an air's bearing.
26:42The child in your belly.
26:44That is the one I value most.
26:46From now on,
26:48the keys to Ravencroft's house will be in your hands.
26:51I nodded,
26:52obedient and meek.
26:53But inside,
26:54I was laughing.
26:55Damien Ravencroft.
26:56You think this is the end?
26:58No.
26:59Locking her away
27:00that is merely to let her suffer while she lives.
27:02The true retribution
27:04is only just beginning.
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