Tilly did not leave immediately; rather, she squatted at the door of the villa.
She also dared not enter the house again. She was afraid to see the angry face of Eduardo. A little while ago, she ran out of the dining room like a homeless stray dog, walking alone on the long private road. No one came to see her, and no one cared about her.
Thinking of everyone's angry and reproachful eyes, Tilly felt extremely wronged.
However, she also realized that she had done something wrong.
Tilly became angry when she was told that it was Wendy who complained to Eduardo, who ordered her to apologize to Wendy. The hatred in Tilly's heart thus became deeper and deeper. She thought that she must not let Wendy accept her apology with content and arrogance. She wanted Wendy to suffer a little at the same time!
Tilly had personally gone to the pharmacy to buy the laxative, and then she grounded the laxative into powder. How the deuce was it turned into rat poison in the end?
Although Tilly hated Wendy, she actually did not have the courage to harm others too much. Take the accident that had happened in the hotel as an example. She had specially ordered the waiter to leave a few small pieces of clothes for Wendy and Francis. Tilly was afraid that if she had really made love with Francis, Wendy might end up killing herself because of the disgraceful thing she did...
Facing everyone's accusations, Tilly was completely unable to explain for it, because even she herself did not know what was going on.
Thinking of her tragic situation, Tilly felt a lump coming into her throat, and she almost cried again. At this time, the sound of footsteps could be heard again in the hallway. It was Kim Gray and Madge Gray, the father and daughter, who were coming out of the villa. Tilly ran over to them in silence.
"Uncle, I have something to say to Madge!"
Kim and Madge were both shocked, and then they frowned. Kim finally swallowed his harsh words down. After all, Tilly was his only niece. He nodded with a gloomy look and said, "Well, you can talk to Madge first. I'll go to the car and wait!"
Kim was the first to walk out of the yard and get in the car. Only the two cousins were left.
Tilly suddenly stepped forward and asked in a deep voice, "Madge, it's you, isn't it?"
"Tilly, what on earth are you talking about?" Madge asked with a puzzled look.
"Don't pretend to be innocent!" Tilly gritted her teeth and glared at her cousin. "Madge, it must be you. I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I just can't figure it out! I did buy the laxative from the pharmacy. It's quite impossible that the shop assistant there has given me the wrong drugs. Besides, the medicine box clearly indicated that it was laxative! You were the only one who knew my plan. Who else can it be except you?"
Hearing this, Madge sighed and shook her head, "Tilly, I don't want to blame you too much for it. How can you be so bold as to use rat poison? You told me at that time that it was only laxative, and therefore I did not stopped you. If you told me the truth, that it was not laxative, but rat poison, I would definitely have stopped you!"
Tilly stared at her cousion, as if she was judging whether the latter was telling a lie or not. But her judgment told her that Madge was innocent, that she was telling the truth. She said deliberately, "I still think that you did it! It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. I'll ask the servant to figure it out!"
After Madge heard that, there was no sign of panic on her face.
"The servant?" Madge thought gloomily.
After the plot was revealed at that time, Eduardo immediately ordered the butler to fire the servant.
Now, with the money given to her by Madge, the servant must have already gotten on the train back to the countryside. Even if Tilly succeeded in finding her out, what could she do? It was Tilly who personally ordered the servant to add laxative to the soup, and handed over the laxative to her. Now the plot had failed. Even if the laxative had been replaced by rat poison by somebody else, Tilly still had to bear the main responsibility. Without any solid evidence at hand, Tilly could only become a mute victim!
The only pity was that the servant was too timid at the moment when she was to hand the soup to Wendy. She accidentally knocked over the soup bowl and was seen through by Charlie; otherwise, Wendy would have been lying in the hospital now. It would be better if Larry also had drunk his mother's soup. As the saying went, "Kill two birds with one stone"...
"Why every time I was extremely close to success, but still failed in the end?" Madge thought.
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