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Looking at the wary expression on the face of her 'mother', Noelle couldn't help but chuckle. "Well, I assume that both of you are familiar with the lady named Dolores?"
Narcissa secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while Noelle's biological father furrowed his brows when his current wife's name was suddenly mentioned. "Are you talking about my wife?"
The gray-haired girl nodded. "That's right. I'm gonna trouble you to go through your memories of the time when she used to serve madam Narcissa here, and see if you can remember who the woman in this picture is."
She took out an aged photograph and passed it onto her 'father' as Narcissa gasped almost immediately. "T-That's Abey, my—!"
Noelle smiled mysteriously. "Your missing servant, yes."
Her mother's face turned even paler. 'N-No way, could it be that this girl found Abey somehow?!'