The Champagne Queen (The Century Trilogy book 2)
“She cleaned and polished the house as if she were trying to win some sort of competition. There was tea in the pot and freshly baked cake—Isabelle had to make an effort to accept so much charity graciously. But in reality, all she really wanted was to be left alone. Why couldn’t Clara see that? Josephine, to Isabelle’s relief, kept more to herself, but Isabelle suspected that she was active in the background. She was probably fixing up the chicken stall with Claude or busy with some other work ...around the estate. That had always been her friend’s forte, fixing broken things. Then she’s in her element on the Feininger estate, Isabelle thought grimly. She’d probably already been through Jacques’s account books in search of orders that simply didn’t exist. Isabelle could well imagine the look of horror on her friend’s face! She should never have said a word about the miserable state of the business. If she’d only acted as if things were going well, then they wouldn’t be so unbearably caring all the time!MoreLess
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