The Returning Ex

Old Mrs. Constance noticed William’s expression clearly and sighed.

After lunch, it was time for William and John to return to the company. Sophia and Matilda sat on the sofa and didn’t send them off. In fact, they didn’t even look at them at all. Sighing, John said to his father, “Come on, let’s go. Our statuses are about the same.”

After the two of them left, the family doctor came over to check on Matilda’s injury.

Indeed, it wasn’t a severe injury. However, the force from the brick had caused Matilda to be afflicted with a lumbar sprain. The doctor said that using warm compresses on her lower back before going to bed at night would help. Other than that, she was fine.

Matilda nodded and thanked the doctor. As the doctor knew Matilda from before, he was really taken aback to see her being so polite. In the past, not only had Matilda never thanked him, but she had also ordered him around bossily. In any case, the doctor courteously responded to her and then left with the medicine kit.

Old Mrs. Constance said she wanted to go for a walk, and Sophia didn’t want to go back to her room to lie down, so they pulled Matilda along to the back garden.

It was quieter at the back of the residence. Perhaps the other mistresses of the Constance Family had gone out.

thought for a while and then stretched out her hand to Matilda. “This residence has always been crowded, but for some reason, it’s never lively. After you

how lifeless this place is! Yet, John doesn’t come back all the time, and William keeps working overtime at the company all the time. I’m really at my wits’ end. I’m an old woman now.

Family had

then turned around to glance at her. “Two days ago, when I went to the monastery,

stunned, for she did not expect that Old Mrs. Constance would talk to her. After giving it a thought, she said, “Really? My mother did tell me a few days ago that she intended to go to the monastery. I had wanted to go along, but I couldn’t find

mother has been worried about you. Even though she didn’t say anything, I

grunted in

then found a place to sit down in the garden. Sophia didn’t sit down with

was such a broad question that Matilda didn’t know how to answer. I have no idea if this old woman is trying to stop me from getting back with William. Hmm… perhaps it was merely a

at a time and see how it goes. At my age, I should take things slowly and do