"I'll solve it myself... Anyway, it's the end, so it's okay."
Jenkins said slowly, then glanced at the gear man:
"Then let's begin."
"Okay, then, let's get started."
The sound fell, and the still world began to flow. The change caught between the fingers of the coachman continued to be counted, and the words stuck in the mouth of the old housekeeper spread into the rain:
"Miss Evelyn, thank you for arriving on time, oh, the weather is terrible. Let's not talk here, please come in, the servants have prepared towels and hot tea, maybe you can have a drink before continuing Lessons with Miss this week."
Then, as if he didn't see Jenkins and the gear man beside him, he led the lady Evelyn towards the inside of the manor.
"Can't I get involved? I just figured out how to explain my presence here."
Jenkins said again, and follow along with the Cog Man. The servant with an umbrella closed the gate of the manor behind them, as if waiting for them to enter.
“People can see us and assume that we should be here. But they will only interact with you if you reach out to them. When you interact, they will think you are someone they can trust, but it doesn’t make you Get exactly what you want."
"Understood, time was suspended just now, and now the sense of existence is thin."
"What's the meaning?"
The Gearman obviously couldn't understand what Jenkins meant, and Jenkins had no intention of explaining. The trail in the courtyard of the manor was not long, and Jenkins took two quick steps to catch up with the old butler and Ms. Evelyn in the middle of the rainy courtyard.
"(Mrs) Ms. Evelyn?"
He tentatively asked, and the woman turned her head naturally:
"Yes, good afternoon, but it's more appropriate for you to call me (Miss) Evelyn."
"Good afternoon, Miss Evelyn... Do you want me to carry your bag for you?"
He asked, the woman looked at him suspiciously, then handed him the bag:
"Thanks."
The chocolate on the shoulder showed a look of contempt, and Jenkins' EQ showed an extremely unstable state, and even the cat didn't know when it would show such an EQ.
"Miss Evelyn, are you a governess?"
He came to this conclusion based on the conversation just now.
"Yes, I am Miss Nancy's poetry teacher."
Nancy Franklin is the daughter of Viscount Franklin, the owner of the manor. She is a friend of Hathaway and Britney, but the relationship is not particularly good. Jenkins has only met her and said no more than ten sentences, so he doesn't know much about it. This noble girl.
Considering that the goal this time is "selfless dedication", and the other party's identity is a tutor, then maybe the identity corresponds to what Jenkins wants to obtain.
He thought about it, and tentatively asked:
"Do you know the heart of selfless dedication?"
"What?"
Miss Evelyn looked at him with a frown as if she didn't understand the sentence, very puzzled. Only then did Jenkins understand that the so-called "request" was not a request, and the difficulty of this strange situation was higher than he thought:
"I mean, Viscount Franklin is very kind to Miss Nancy, after all, he is an only daughter. As Miss Nancy's tutor, the Viscount should not treat you badly, right?"
"fine."
The woman was perfunctory, and did not tell him the specific income as a tutor as Jenkins imagined.
"It seems that things are not going very well."
The gear man walked aside and said, Jenkins shook his head:
"The fare I paid to the driver just now is the exact change, which means that she has prepared it long ago. If it is not financially difficult, she will usually give the whole money, and the remaining change will be used as a tip. Prepare the exact money, which shows that her financial situation is actually not good. not good."
He carefully looked at the lady's clothes again:
"To be the tutor of a noble lady, you must not dress poorly. This suit should be her best clothes, but you can see the creases on the clothes, which means that her residence is not big, so when storing clothes, you must The clothes are folded, so there are such obvious creases on this dress. The obvious creases also indicate that the clothes have been folded for a long time. Maybe she only wears this dress when she is a tutor .It also proves that the financial situation of this lady is not optimistic."
He paused, and then said:
"She is still a maiden and should live alone. As a single woman around 25 years old, the biggest living expenses should be the rent. It is impossible for her to have her own house in Nolan. I know the housing prices here very well. Therefore, if there is no Bad habits such as gambling should not cost a lot to a single woman. But in this case, her life is still relatively tight, which shows that she is deliberately saving money, and this job will not be paid very much. "
"What does saving money have to do with how much you get paid?"
the gear man asked again.
"It's very simple. Saving money means she can't just do one job, and just now the old housekeeper said that this is a class for this week, which means that there is only one class a week. If the pay is a lot, I don't think Miss Evelyn will There will be only one class a week."
Alexia not only served as Dolores's tutor in Ruen, but also worked as a tutor in Nolan, so Jenkins knew the inside story of the industry. Generally speaking, two classes a week is the norm, at least in Nolan.
"So you conclude by these unsubstantiated inferences that she is not well paid as a governess?"
"Yes."
Of course, the above inferences were full of loopholes. What really made Jenkins conclude was that he had heard Britney laugh at Viscount Franklin's stinginess, so the income of the tutors he hired could not be high. Of course, there is no need to tell the gearman about these things, as long as Jenkins knows it himself.
"But this is strange. Miss Evelyn does this job purely to save money, so what does this have to do with 'selfless dedication'? She is not a teacher for the purpose of spreading knowledge at all."
Jenkins looked at the gear man, who did not answer, but reminded:
"They're coming in."
A group of four people had already stepped up the steps to the gate of the manor. A maid had been waiting here, handing Miss Evelyn a scrubbing towel. Because the rain was not very heavy, her clothes were not wet, so there was no need to change clothes.
The girls waiting for class are still taking a nap, and the maids have gone to wake them up. Before Miss Nancy Franklin was ready, Miss Evelyn went to the study on the second floor of the manor alone to wait.
This is the study of the noble lady herself, not the study of the elders. Jenkins and the Cogman followed suit, and of course the servants did not prepare refreshments for them and the cat.