Knowing the flowers should have died weeks before made Leonor feel miserable. She had been reviving them each night, not realizing how difficult it would be to part with them.
Normally, she was more logical. After she met Valerio, she became far more emotional.
A thought struck her that would fix her problem entirely.
Leonor stood up from the chair at her desk and she rushed towards the mostly empty wardrobe. Inside was a box towards the back that she decided to pack last so it wouldn't risk harm.
She lifted the lid off the box and revealed a beautifully carved jewelry box she had managed to steal from her mother's things after the Count allowed maids to go through them.
Jewelry was among the few things in her mother's life she cherished. Leonor felt it was important to preserve that aspect of Countess Jara.
