'Six bronze coins but for you, I shall take five.' The footman smiled.
Richard counted six bronze coins and pushed them in the footman's hand.
'Thank you, kind sir!' The footman said and began moving Richard's things out of the carriage.
'I will go ahead.' Richard's mother said and walked into the house.
It was not the toughest thing for her to do for she had made a resolve to accept her husband's death even though she loved him so much. It was the best thing for her and her son after all.
Richard's mother, Lucy walked straight to where she expected her husband to lay. It was his room, a place where he forbade anyone from going into.
When Lucy walked in, she saw her husband's siblings by his death bed. They were saying their last words to him.
It looked impossible that two people could be in her husband's room at the same time without him complaining.
