Queeny didn’t want to give Dean a hard time. After all, she knew Dean had done a lot to get to this point.
She had made the first move for them, and it was up to them to decide what would happen next.
So, not reluctantly, she nodded, “Yes, you can go out now.”
Dean then turned and walked out.
After he left, Queeny came up again and took a good look at Ella.
From top to bottom, from front to back, she was satisfied.
She nodded. “Yes, it looks good on you.”
Then, with a wave of her hand, she told the clerk, “We’ll take it. Check, please.”
Ella saw this and quickly reached out her hand to stop her.
“Miss Horton.”
Queeny paused and looked at her. “What?”
“I…”
She looked at her and tried to say something, but she didn’t say a word. There seemed to be a great deal of mixed emotion in her clear eyes now.
Queeny looked at her with a slight frown.
She realized that Ella really had something in her mind today, not her own delusion. So she turned to her and asked softly, “What happened?”
Ella bit her lip, and there was a struggle in her eyes. After a long pause, she shook her head.
She forced a smile and said, “I just feel I can’t take such an expensive dress from you. After all, I’m just a ser...”
“Stop it!”
Before she could finish her sentence, Queeny interrupted her.
Queeny looked at her, sighed, and said, “What’s wrong with your identity? Should servants be born inferior, and servants unworthy of good clothes? Ella, no one is born cheap. Everyone’s life should be decided by herself. Even though you are only a servant now, you may not be a servant in the future. At the very least, so what if you’re a servant all the time?”
“All the people in this world who make their own living should not be looked down upon. I gave you that dress because I like you, because I appreciate the care you've taken of me, and it doesn’t mean anything else.”
“And you don’t have to feel guilty about it, you just have to be who you are, okay?”
Ella looked at her quietly. Queeny felt that those bright eyes were filled with sadness for some reason.
She pursed her lips and nodded heavily.
“I got it.”
Queeny pressed down her anxiety, touched her head, and whispered, “Don’t think about it, it would be my fault if, because of my good intentions, I made you uncomfortable.”
She thought Ella was touched by her pride because she gave her such an expensive gift, so she comforted her and didn’t think of anything else.
Ella nodded.
Queeny then asked the clerk to check again, and in the meantime, to wrap up her clothes.
Ella was wearing the new dress when they went out. “Clothes make the man.” They were right.
Queeny was very close to Ella when they were walking together, but people could still see the difference between them at a glance.
But Ella had changed her clothes by this time, so when they walked together again, people would believe them even if they said they were sisters.
After that, Queeny took Ella to several stores.
Finally, she bought herself a pair of shoes. When she passed a men’s clothing store, she suddenly saw a piece of men’s clothing hanging in the window and felt a little tempted.
It was a grey suit, and Felix didn’t wear suits very often, or perhaps because he didn’t spend much time with her.
But somehow Queeny sensed that the suit would look good on him.
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