Wrongfully accused

"I have lost my diamond necklace!" Coral cried out loudly calling to the attention of everyone, as she looked to both sides of her chair frantically for it.

Etheldreda who had made to reply to what Scarlett had said to her, paused on her words the moment she heard an outcry from Scarlett's daughter. Hendrix had stood up almost immediately and walked over to her side, as he helped to check every corner around her, and even on her dress for it.

"How does it look like?" Edla asked weakly, trying to get off the gnawing thoughts that had effortlessly permeated into her brains. She was really exhausted from wallowing in them. Impressing Hendrix too that she truly cared for his sister, might work in getting him to notice her too. It was like killing two birds with one stone.

"Like an oval shaped emerald diamond. It is attached to tiny golden straps," she explained to them, as they tried to wonder in their minds if they had really seen it.

"When did you notice it missing?" Hendrix asked, st