Eva's Sins.

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„The sacrifice of a mother is beyond any limits, even beyond her soul"

  „To Image?" Beth practically yelled while standing behind Ms. Huntington and staring at Brian and Eva who were sitting on the sofa. „But... Miss Stonebridge, you were who said that in Image..."

  „...I suffered the most?!" Eva said and she finally looked at Beth.

  Since she turned back home and they've decided to tell others too about their journey to her hometown, Eva stood droopingly as if she felt guilty for something.

  „You are right, Beth, I said this. But yet: I still feel that I must go there."

  „Why?" Beth asked in a cross voice, being also confused.

  „That's enough, Beth. I think that's enough. Eva is old enough to decide alone if to..." Ms. Huntington tried to calm down Beth, but she was too hot-blooded, furious, and anxious to listen to someone's advice.

  „This is insane, Miss Stonebridge, what you want to do. If you don't think about yourself, at least think about the child you are carrying in your belly. He isn't guilty of your foolishness!"

  „Beth, that's enough!" Stan told her in a low voice, but when Beth took a slant at him as if she was ready to rip him, he preferred to keep silent, but not because he was afraid of her, but because he knew that Beth wasn't thinking rationally at that moment and she was interfering in someone's life without having the right to do this. However, he didn't know how to make the girl react.

  And Stan also kept silent because he understood that he didn't know too much about such things, even if he learned a lot while living in the street: about that someone's life is totally his and nobody has the right to ask someone to do something against his will. But Beth didn't know this or preferred not to know this because even if she was just a servant in Eva's house while they grew up together, she'd been treated like an equal. That's why she could afford to talk to Eva like this because she knew that she won't be punished for this, in the end.

  But what Stan couldn't do, Ms. Huntington did, in the end: she forced Beth to keep silent when she scowled at her and, imperiously, she told the girl: „Elisabeth Alby, I think that you beat hell! You've forgotten who's the master and who's the servant between you two. If you can't keep silent and listen to what they have to tell us, then I'll ask you to leave the room. You only puddle them."

  These words brained Beth and she took tiff because nobody ever told her such words before and even if she knew that she's only a servant she'd been never called like this and neither with such a severe tone. „Ms. Huntington..." Beth murmured tearfully because she felt that she didn't deserve to be called like this.

  „I won't say it again, Beth, and neither I'll apologize for it even if you drown this house in tears. So, think twice before saying something else because I consider it a shamelessness of you to talk to Eva like this. Especially in front of Mister Beneath."

  „Ms. Huntington, it's not necessary to say these words to her. Beth had been always next to me, supporting me and she has the right to..."

  „No, Miss Stonebridge. Maybe it had been this way in your house, in Image, but in this house, she must respect the ranks, and even if you consider her your friend, Beth hasn't the right to call in question your decision which I consider to be logical and right because..." but she'd been interrupted by Beth, who burst to cry and scuttled off the room.

  Ms. Alice deeply breathed in, then she murmured reproachfully: „children! They never understand the truth! Come one, Stan, follow that fool child or she'll be able to do foolishness if she's alone."