I know where I was wrong. I pursued to get it right. When the workers came the following week, even when they kept stopping me, I was determined to help. There were three young girls and two boys about my age who helped to get the chores inside and outside the cottage done. There was no instruction given to them. I assumed they knew what to do. And I knew they were coming so I woke up early and even saw Razbill leave after joining them for breakfast.
I only went down after he left as I knew he wouldn't allow my plan. And even if he did, I would be embarrassed to let him see my work.
"Miss, I'll do that," one girl stretched out her hands to get the feather duster to me. I smiled and shook my head, wiping the sweat off my forehead with the back of my hand. She had been insisting on taking
