How can she search them when he is there? Similarly, she becomes very invested in getting the duke out of his rooms. If she cannot rely on them to be about their assigned tasks, anyone might walk in on her when she is searching. Olivia dislikes the slovenly way the house is kept but she has an ulterior motive for putting the staff back to proper work. Without a firm hand, the remaining staff members are pretty much doing their own thing. He had a rather profound psychiatric reaction and has become a recluse – he doesn’t even leave his rooms anymore and is prone to violent tempers which has left him short-staffed. She is most surprised to find herself installed as housekeeper with a household in disarray.įollowing the death of his wife, Alistair found out she had cuckolded him with multiple men (one of them Bertram) and this added rage to grief. Olivia wishes for safety and she hopes that working for Marwick will give her the ammunition she needs to achieve it. Apparently, Lord Bertram, for reasons that are unclear for most of the book (which is fine), wishes Olivia dead. In Fool Me Twice, Olivia Halliday applies for a position of maid in the household of the Duke of Marwick, Alistair de Grey in order to sneak about and locate certain (she hopes) incriminating information regarding a common enemy, Lord Bertram.
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