Summary
On the day our household was raided and confiscated, the estate was in chaos.
My legal mother, who had never liked me, pulled me into her arms and hastily adorned my hair with pins and ornaments.
She held me and cried out, calling me her ill-fated daughter, yet her eyes never once left the back gate.
I turned to look.
There stood my legitimate elder sister, already changed into a maidservant’s clothes and about to flee.