Ruth managed to hide the day's events from Mrs Payne. She tossed from one side to the other, unable to get any sleep. How many days she will manage to hide the truth from her?
What would happen when she get to know the truth?
And the most nagging question that kept eating Ruth's brain was how the dress got ruined?
The way it was torn at places, and stained showed it was a deliberate act. Only Thea and Mrs Payne were there in the room the whole time apart from her, and none of the two ladies would ever do that.
Then who?
Ruth again changed her side. The left side of her face pressed in the pillow under her head. She sighed, looking at peacefully sleeping Mrs Payne except for the sounds of her loud snores. For some reason, Ruth smiled hearing that sound.
She had a hard time adjusting to it initially when she shifted to live with her. However, after more than a month, she got so used to hearing it that she doubted if she could get any sleep if that sound did not fall on her ears.