Chapter 49 The Plans Advance

• Evening comes and Adelaide has no choice but to ask Irene for help again in preparing the dreaded dinner for Egil with that Ana Lupot, as he had requested before going to the office. She completely forgot about it and now she is desperate to arrive on time and not be scolded like in the morning.
• Irene and she go together to the kitchen. The maids look at her with contempt, but a single warning look from Irene puts them all in their place.
• "Mr. Egil will have dinner with Miss Ana tonight and requests that you take care of it," Adelaide informs them, and they all stand astonished that the wife herself is coming to say that her husband's mistress is going to come to have dinner with him. That is illogical from every point of view and demeaning for her, as she will be handing her man over to another woman. The cook nods and gets to work.