Delphine humiliates housemaid Sabina by forcing her face into a half-eaten dessert and telling her that scraps are all she deserves.
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Chapter 14 / 17
Chapter 14
The head chair from that engagement dinner stayed in storage.
I did not notice for years.
Then during a renovation Sabina found it.
“Sir?”
“Yes?”
“What do you want done with this?”
I recognized it immediately.
The chair I had given her while cake stained her collar.
She looked uncomfortable.
“Keep?”
“No.”
“Dispose?”
I thought.
“Use it.”
“For what?”
“It’s a chair.”
She stared.
Then laughed.
Eventually it ended up in the staff dining room.
Not symbolically.
Because they needed four more chairs and it matched badly enough to amuse everyone.
The first time I saw a dishwasher sitting in it eating soup, I almost stopped.
Then didn’t.
May you like
Good.
Objects lose power when life continues.
