As he spoke, he took out his wallet without bothering to ask how much Serenity had lost. He took out a few pieces of cash and handed them to Madam Barlowe.
Serenity noticed that the bets were at least eight to nine hundred if not a thousand.
Madam Barlowe took the money and counted it, then put it in the betting pile. "We shall place it here first and settle it all after the last round."
When the servants came to announce that dinner was ready, the game finally ended. Serenity and Madam Eaton lost, the former losing more than the latter. But the bets weren't that big anyway so Serenity only lost a little more than a thousand. The women did not bet like the men usually would, in the tens or hundreds of thousands in one game. Just thinking about it made one's heart ache.
