"I was not granted access to the glass you received, Lady Adelaide, but I would wager my grandmother's crown in Kolhis that it wasn't poisoned."
Adela recollected Egon's gesture of inhaling the liquor's aroma and confirming the absence of poison back in her room that night, yet she refrained from divulging his unconventional approach in a room brimming with men whose integrity she questioned.
The dukes might have committed an unforgivable deed in their bid to shield her. From Adela's standpoint, she firmly believed that the ultimate outcome could never serve as justification for the methods employed.
Sasha's sizable brown eyes shifted from a disconcerted-looking Adela and fixed onto the Dukes once more.
"Do you even grasp the massive mess your plan could've stirred up? Seriously, have you not figured out what kind of person Kaiser de Lanark is at all?"
