"Mother! Mother...!"
"The Governor is here, Governor Donovan!" Sarah called out to her mother, who was upstairs with the servants, sorting through clutter.
"Who?"
A flurry of footsteps, and a dusty, middle-aged woman emerged from a storage room.
"Who's here?" Lady Odogin asked in disbelief.
"Governor Donovan. Robson and the others are coming back today, and Governor Donovan heard the news...
Oh, right, Viscount Weisheng is here too, and Grandpa Ansari," Sarah said to Lady Odogin.
"Oh! Lord of Dawn above, if they stay the night, we'll have to sleep on the streets!"
Hearing this, Lady Odogin put a hand to her forehead, feeling a kind of happy distress.
In the past, the arrival of any one of these figures would have been cause for the Odogin Family to hold a grand banquet in their honor.
But now, all these people had come at once, and even the Governor...
