Chapter 161

**Daphne

It smelled funny in here. Not fishy like the men who took me away from Daddy. But like someone was wearing too much perfume.

And flowers. There were too many flowers.

I sneezed.

Voices were talking around me. Then someone patted me on the head.

“Oh, darling, you’re awake!” a lady said.

I didn’t like her already. She sounded like she didn’t mean what she was saying. Like the governess when