Sofia's parents are worried about Sofia, they fear that Sofia can't handle the tight of being a housemaid at the WoodHound mansion.
Both of them look towards the window and sees the night sky with many bright stars.
They knew that the choice that they decided is truly risky, but to make their family keep survive in this world, even when Russia is on the time of crisis, they had no choice, so they have to send their beloved daughter, Sofia to work at the mansion where the true rivalry and cruelty at the world of nobility lies.
They only could hope and pray that Sofia could stand within the hard trials of the WoodHound mansion and return safely with the high salary she receives.
The next morning, she awakes, as she sees the time at the time of 6 am, Sofia directly washes her face and wears the housemaid dress.
At the time of 6.30 am, the bell rings.
Sofia gets out from her room at the same time with the other maids also get out from their room.
Then, Polina greets her, "Good morning, Sofia."
Sofia replies, "Good morning to you too, Polina, its nice and fresh to meet you again."
Then, Polina says, "Alright, let us go to the assembly room."
Then, Sofia nodded, 'yes'.
Both of them go to the assembly room together.
The others also have their own friends to communicate with.
All the maids had arrived at the assembly room.
Sofia sees the senior maids and the servants also come.
Then, Ms.Varvara and Sir.Igor come to the assembly room.
Ms.Varvara says, "Prepare yourself to greet the lady and the lord duke."
They all prepare themselves.
Then, the lady, Lady Anastasia and the lord duke whose wears a British Drama opera suit and British Drama opera mask with a long black cape come down the stairs with his assistant, Mrs.Victoria.
The Lord Duke's name is Nicolas/Nikolas Nivostlein.
As they come down ,Ms.Varvara ,Sir Igor ,the servants ,the senior maids and the junior maids bow down and they all say
,"Good morning ,my lady and my lord."
After that, they bow towards them,
Lord Nicolas says ,"Thank you for the greeting ,everyone and good morning to you all."
Meanwhile ,Lady Anastasia just nodded and doesn't speak a word.
Then, Lord Nicolas and Lady Anastasia go to the noble family's dining room.
Then ,Ms.Varvara says to the senior maids to prepare to serve the lady and the lord duke.
Sir.Igor says to all the servants to go to the kitchen to send the breakfast that the chefs had cooked to the Lady and the Lord Duke.
Meanwhile, Ms.Varvara says to the junior maids to go have breakfast at the maid's dining room and preparing for the housework chores.
Then, the junior maids go to the maids' dining room for breakfast.
As they reach there, the maids see the food and water had been on every table and seats.
All of them directly go to their table.
Sofia and Polina sit together again.
They have breakfast and have a talk together.
Ms.Varvara and Sir.Igor are preparing the housework chores for the housework maids to work.
Then ,Sir.Igor says towards Ms.Varvara ,"Its look like that Lady Anastasia is not in a good mood."
Ms.Varvara replies ,"It might because of their talk last night ,I don't know what are they talking about ,but there's no conflict between them ,but what's make Lady Anastasia's face gone depressed and pale today?"
Then ,Sir Igor says ,"What a strange couple they are."
Ms.Varvara then says ,"That man is truly mysterious ,why Master Gregory let this man be his beloved daughter's fiancé ,I feel that Lord Nicolas is up to no good."
As they both don't know that Ms.Victoria is behind the wall heard all of their conversation.
TO BE CONTINUED....