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