"What are you going to do about her?" Jazmine asked.
"in what way do you mean?"
"Shall she stay here till you are back or what?" Jazmine elaborated the meaning to her first question.
"she shall come with me" Sebastian replied as it seemed like the answers to her questions were already thought of.
"what do you mean Sebastian?, she is foreign, nothing to guard her, the paths you take probably won't help her a bit, taking her to the Palace, isn't that the same as letting all the attentions of the morons you call ladies be on her?, she could be easily ridiculed, you know more than I do, have you heard not of the dangers the castle beholds, she looks naive" Jazmine said as she tried to let every of her word sink into Sebastian's mind.
"judge a book by the cover not, she would come around except her father did a bad job training her" Sebastian said.
"be her governess for this night, when next we come she shall take more teachings, I need you to touch her mode of walking, dressing and other things you can cover tonight, by day break we shall set of, prepare maids and body guards that shall join us, also worry not about her as she is something not worth it, would have loved to clear your doubts but i know you as a clever woman, now shoo, I want to get dressed" he added and Jazmine walked out with a huff, closing the door behind her with a large thud.
"What is this called?" Lily asked Celine who had earlier rubbed oil over her skin and had worn an embroidered petticoat as she had called it for her.
"It's a wrapper milady, an open wrapper" Celine said as she helped Lily wear them, it was green in colour and Lily loved how beautiful it looked.
"thank you Celine" Lily said and Celine bowed her head.
"my pleasure milady", Lily knew not what to say about Celine's way of addressing her, the lady seemed to prefer it that way, it came out smoothly.
Walking behind Celine who led the way to the dinning room as she had mentioned earlier, Lily had the time to look at the rest of the mansion, she came across more and more maids plus guards who stood in position, they only bowed when necessary.
"we are here milady" Celine said and that brought Lily's focus back.
"you are here" Jazmine said as she stood up from the large dinning table to come welcome her, Celine bowed as she then walked away.
Lily looked at the dinning table, it was a big and long one, having a chair each at both ends, other chairs were beautiful arranged at the table's length, the well polished table had flower verses at its middle with arranged plates and napkins beneath them, cups and jugs on the table too.
Looking forward from the other end of the table one could see a large well polished show case wooden shelf for different kind of cups, tumblers and other things, above the dinning table hanged a large chandelier.
Lily sat down as she waited for the meals to arrive, the maids had started arranging the table, as they brought hot soup, fish, bacon, fresh milk and vegetables.
"would it be okay to call you Lily, lady Lily?" Jazmine asked and Lily looked up from her plate as she nodded.
"yes, that would be more comfortable" she replied.
"thank you Lily, ah that reminds me we shall study in my room tonight as you have quite a lot of lessons/ etiquette to cover up, I shall take the role of your governess, my brothers orders" Jazmine's smooth voice said and Lily nodded.
"hope you are liking it here?" a smooth masculine voice was heard and startled Lily turned to look at the man who was walking majestically to the dinning table, she didn't have words to describe how handsome he looked, even beautiful was an understatement, he looked as if he was the only one created on the day he was born, he was breathtaking".