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Cain: "So, if it's your loved daughter, why you punished her?"
Madame Hardy (surprise) : "What?"
Cain: "No matter how well the body is care, there's countless wounds and extravasated blood on the hands . . . there are the marks made by whipping. Just like how Cinderella was whipped by her stepmother. ", keeps on saying and look calm , "Don't you know? In the Middle Age, there was a kind of poison in Rome for poison the successor ------ it is also known as "The Stepmother's Poison". Oh, I remember now, Madame Hardy, did you know this poison 'Antimony' ? It's similar to arsenic, it's one of the strong poisons. It dissolves in water and it's colorless and smells nothing. Started from The Victorian time, it has many uses such as mixing up with wine to obtain the same result.", suddenly holding Madame Hardy's arm and say, "And, its side-effect is keeping the deterioration away ----- like the dead body of Betsy's . . . " "So? Is it true, beautiful hostess . . . "

Madame Hardy: "Shut Up! " Are you saying that I poisoned my own daughter? Though that child was brought here by my husband as the adopted child . . . "
Cain: "Oh . . . so, she is your stepdaughter then ----- Is she not?"

 

 

Madame Hardy: "I . . . I beg your pardon. I am over reacted. Because I don't feel good. . . "
Cain: "Well! In this case, please take a good care of yourself."
Madame Hardy: "George! Please walk me to the room."
George: "Yes, Madame . . . . . . !"
Madame Hardy thinks:
Who is he . . . ...? The golden eyes that could see through everything. It's terrible ... Why he is so good at poisons?

- OH -

Madame Hardy: "George, I remember now! That youth . . . the pair of eyes! And Poison!" "He is the famous poison collector, the one who just became the Earl ---- Cain C. Hargreaves ! "

- In Madame Hardy's Room -

Madame Hardy: "Yes! I saw him twice or third in the ball, he is familiar with poisons . .."
George: "The famous and rich successor of The Hargreaves's. How could this be? He won't laid eyes on this minor fortune !"

Madame Hardy: "No... That child called Elizabeth as "Betsy", this is too friendly. Elizabeth's nickname can be 'Lizie' or 'Betty', or 'Beth' and more . . . . But, why he knew that child's nick is "Betsy"? I remember what she said:

Madame Hardy recalls what Elizabeth said:
-- Elizabeth: " 'Elizabeth' is my friend. She lives inside this mirror. She has the same face of mine. Though she is called Elizabeth too, I in this side is called "Betsy" and she in the mirror side is called 'Bess'. In loneliness, in sadness or fear, she is always there for me. It's another me..." -

Elizabeth: "How great it could be if I could come inside and play with the Mirror Bess ... just like 'Alice in the Wonderland' " -

George: "That's because Elizabeth was too lonely. Master Hardy who bore no child bought young, beautiful Elizabeth somewhere . . . She was always lonely because she was forced to apart her closed elder sister . . . "
Madame Hardy: "That's why you had to comfort her? George, don't think that I know nothing. When that child was with you, she smiled happily and in felicity. Yet, Snow White didn't realize the reality. "

Recalls again:
Elizabeth: "George . . . Are you here? Thanks for giving me the flowers and the painting ..." "George"?

- Elizabeth was too shocked when she saw George and her stepmother hugged each other. She broke the photo-frame -

George: "That's ..... that's what you had planned for...."
Madame Hardy: "Yes. I used your name and asked that child to come in. She had to receive her punishment for stealing my belonging ...."

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