Chapter 12
Arthur lost Rosemere.
Not literally.
He sold it.
Could not stand looking at it.
I almost told him discomfort was useful.
Didn’t.
His conscience was not my project.
He eventually apologized to Amabel.
She refused the meeting.
So he wrote one letter.
Then stopped.
Better than Celestine’s first attempts.
Arthur also severed ties with the two advisers who helped arrange Julian’s transfer.
Not because I ordered him.
Because he finally understood they had encouraged his worst instincts.
Maybe.
Or because he wanted redemption.
Motives can be mixed.
I did not grade them.
What mattered was behavior.
Bellamy Holdings created a real employee housing structure with contracts independent of household disputes.
Amabel insisted on that before she would accept any settlement for lost wages.
Smart.
Her experience would not simply become private tragedy.
The mechanism had to change.
I supported it.
No maid should fear losing a home because an employer’s daughter became jealous.
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Basic.
Apparently revolutionary.
