George brought his men to work for the whole day. In the end, when he went to Caroline's place, he didn't even get a glass of water before he came back in a huff.
As soon as he entered, he saw Joline sitting in the living room.
George remembered what he had done at the Lambert's house today. He was afraid that his grandmother would be angry, so he stood on his tiptoes and wanted to sneak back to his room.
But Joline was sitting there waiting for him, so the gatekeeper and the people in the courtyard had already told her about George's return. How could she miss the news of her grandson's return?
"I heard that you barged into the Lambert family's residence with your men and took away a lot of things?" Joline was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed presbyopic glasses and flipping through a newspaper cutting spread out on her knees.
