Edward looked down at the woman who gave him the impression that was a bit crazy mixed with a frivolous and flirting nature. Though as a doctor he did have a few interaction with women but they were all strictly professional. Today was the first he was teased by a woman and boy was he flustered and tongue tied.
Though he was embarrassed and didn't want to see her again, but out of professionalism, he had to do his job and check her situation. After checking he noticed that she was severely exhausted only because of lack of mana and not physically tired due to lack of sleep as she mentioned earlier.
Even if he was just a doctor with just enough mana to distinguish himself from normal humans, as someone who's examined as many people as possible from a tender age of 7 since he started following his master, he developed an ability to see the true strength of a person. This ability had helped him several times to survive in this dog eat dog world.
The moment he met the wierd woman, he had noticed that her strength and mana was so huge that it exceeded human limits, but due to her teasing he almost forgot the fact that he would loose his life with just a flick of her finger.
This woman who was full of mana the moment they met had become like an empty vessel the moment he came back. It seems the matter concerning the Duchess is not that simple. To require such huge amount of mana to stabilize her soul can only mean that she dealt with something forbidden or something unknown. Whatever it is I can only keep quiet if I want to live. Hahh... how unfortunate.
As Edward's mind drifted away in his thoughts, he didn't realise that he was still staring down at the woman too seriously that he caused the rest of the women standing there to misunderstand.
Jessy cleared her throat and called out to the doctor, " Pardon me for the interruption doctor, but may I know if there's anything wrong with Miss Elaine? She is our Mistress's best friend and nothing should happen to her. Please let us know whatever you need to help her."
Edward came out of his thoughts and accidentally blurted out his inner thoughts gulping, " U-ummm the Duchess won't silence me for coming upon her secret right?"
Jessy thought she heard wrong and asked the trembling young man, " Doctor, it seems I have misheard something. Do you mind repeating it? No before that please tell us what's wrong with miss Elaine. You already can't tell what's wrong with our mistress nor calm the child. If you are unable to even say what's wrong with Miss Elaine, then I can only say you're useless." Jessy uttered the last sentence coldly, her eyes were so cold that Edward felt his blood freeze from that blood chilling gaze.
Edward immediately stated the woman's condition precisely without missing any, he can be scolded or treated rudely. But no can say that he's horrible at treating others. Loosing reputation is not a good thing, treating others is the only thing he can do, without it how can he survive.
It was only because he was extremely good at treating others that he survived multiple times. And it wasn't the first time he was threatened, well it's not like only the good and proper people get hurt.
Most of the patients he had treated were crazily strong and wierd people, so he didn't feel out of place while attempting to treat the Duchess. He could only say he attempted to treat the Duchess because none of his methods worked on her. He felt so useless that instead of feeling despair, he was only even more motivated to improve himself further.
After hearing from the doctor that Elaine was only sleeping due to exhaustion, they immediately carried her and placed her near Adriana, while little Annalise was still lying on top of her mother and looking curiously at others.
The child stopped crying after Adriana's situation stabilized and thus Annalise no longer cried but was looking around curiously. Since it was the first time the child came to this room, she stayed near her mother due to a sense of security and only watched whatever happened around her.
Annalise though a child could sense the hostility from the servants of the mansion, thus subconsciously, as a measure to protect herself she never inconvenienced anyone. And since she couldn't talk a few contraptions were set in her room that she uses to communicate with others.
Those contraptions were set up by Clara, and only she knows what it's original use was. Only Adriana knew those things were Clara's failed products after seeing the crestfallen expressions on Clara's face, when she saw how Anna used them.