Comment by Introvert on Introvert

It's close to mid night when Yvonne arrives back at the estate. The duke is waiting for her at the door. The knights who were hiding appear as the duke raises his hand. Derek is at his side staring at her with cold eyes. The duke asks her where she's been until now. She tries to lie and say she got back earlier and went for a walk in the forest and fell asleep there. He tells her she's lying as he watched the empty carriage return. She tells him the carriage left her first and she took a wagon to the back door and the duke comments that the horseman was talking gibberish like a crazy person as if he was under some kind of magic. She thinks he's a sly fox who even checked with wizards and clenches her fist behind her back. When the duke asks why she didn't tell him she says she didn't know and she thought he would send her away so she pretended she didn't know and began to cry.

Derick tries to interrupt asking for them to do it in the morning as it's late and she came back safely. The duke continues and ask why she went to the top street. She tries to deny that she knows where that is. He then said there had been a testimony that Becky also went there before Penelope's coming of age ceremony. Derick tries to stop him but the Duke tells him to shut his mouth.