Clara walked slowly toward her husband with her arms crossed tightly.
Her expensive shoes made sharp clicking noises on the hard marble floor.
She looked down at Elena with strong disgust in her cold eyes.
Arthur watched her movements carefully, feeling that something was completely wrong.
Clara: Fire her immediately, Arthur!
Elena: Please, ma'am, tell him what really happened!
Clara: You left the baby unattended near the dangerous stairs!
Elena: That is not true at all, Mrs. Vance!
Arthur: Stop yelling and let her speak, Clara.
Clara: You cannot trust a word this girl says to you!
Arthur: I am the one asking the questions in my house.
Arthur carried Leo over to the plush velvet sofa in the room.
He placed the boy down gently and sat beside him right away.
His mind was racing as he remembered the past few months clearly.
Clara had insisted on hiring a new nanny right after their wedding.
She said Elena came from a very good agency with great references.
Yet Clara always seemed nervous whenever Elena was near the child.
Arthur had trusted his new wife without asking any extra questions.
Now he wondered if he had made a huge mistake back then.
He looked at Elena's small, trembling body on the white floor.
She did not look like someone who would ever harm a child.
She had raised her own younger siblings in a humble countryside town.
Her devotion to baby Leo was usually obvious to everyone around.
Arthur felt a strange suspicion growing deep inside his worried heart.
He needed to know why Clara wanted Elena gone so quickly.
Arthur: Elena, stand up and tell me everything from the start.
Elena: I was in the nursery preparing his bottle, sir.
Arthur: And where was Clara during that time?
Elena: She entered the room and told me to leave.
Clara: She is lying to cover her own foolish mistake!
Arthur raised his hand to cut his wife off completely now.
The silence in the room was heavy and full of tension.