Mr. Hermann widened his eyes and creased his brows. He must have thought that Yohana overstepped her boundaries. Just because she was the crown prince's lover didn't mean that she was allowed to penetrate sensitive matters.
It was only natural because Mr. Hermann didn't know what Yohana had been through. In his eyes, she was no more than a noble lady, who was kidnapped once. The scandal was big, but no one really knew what happened to Yohana during her time missing.
To such questions, she usually evaded answering. But when people pestered, she would smile and tell them that she tried to do everything to survive. People simply thought that she worked on the street, scraping gold little by little until she earned enough to return home.
Things were much more complicated in reality. Those who had never been thrown to the street with nothing and no one would ever understand that getting back on one's feet was not that easy.
