Seamus is rather apprehensive as he waits outside Catherine’s office. He prays that she hasn’t discovered his true role just yet. Have I been betrayed? Should I have been more careful?
“Monsieur Fick, my lady is ready to see you.” Maddalena says snidely. “Be careful not to keep her waiting.”
There’s something about her bitchy asides that just makes everything worse. Leaves a man grasping for straws mired in his own paranoia. He sees her tactics now; discomfit and destablise a person to create dominance. Maddalena is Catherine’s attack dog. She cannot be trusted as far as she can be thrown.
“Well, well, Seamus Fick. Shut the door we have much to discuss in private.” she notices Maddalena linger unnecessarily by the doorways and calls her out on it. “Do you not have somewhere to go, Madda
