The housekeeper and the gardener came restocking their supply for the day as soon as the sun was up. It seemed they only came when her husband was around to bring food and clean up the place.
"How well do you know Xavier?" She asked the woman, mopping the kitchen floor.
She could not help if she were curious, deciding to conduct her investigation by questioning the people who worked for him.
Besides, a day had passed. Yet, she still had not heard from her husband. Of course, she was concerned, thinking something might have happened to him.
Perhaps, an accident.
However, she could not ask this woman where he was, not wanting to cause alarm when she had no evidence to support that her husband might be missing or lying in a ditch somewhere.
"He has employed me and my husband for years. But we seldom talk to him because he usually liked to be left alone when he was here." The woman told her as if hesitant to discuss her employer.
