"What?" she asked, to verify she heard it well.
"I told you, a maid spread the rumor right before they fired her which made things be more suspicious about the truthfulness of the rumor." The maid said, scratching her head.
"That's not only a rumor. That is a pure and harsh accusation." Roselyn whispered, widening her eyes as she couldn't believe to her ears.
She wanted to run toward the King and to tell him what she found out, to get her petty revenge over the old maid, but she stopped her irrepressible deplorable temptation.
A well-mannered lady shall not act like that. What she could do was used that information to her benefit by trying to solve the dispute she had with the old lady.
The maid's revelation echoed in her mind. "she is rumored to have been in love with the King William. That would explain her immense worshipless toward him."
