Arthur set his heavy briefcase down near the dark wooden table.
He looked at the sudden tension hanging over the sunny hallway.
Sarah held the stroller handle tightly while walking toward the stairs.
Victoria rushed down the steps quickly in her champagne silk dress.
Her high heels clicked loudly on the hard white marble steps.
Victoria: Arthur darling, thank goodness you came home early today!
Arthur: What is going on with the baby right now?
Victoria: The new maid was extremely careless near the open stairs!
Sarah gasped in disbelief as she heard the false sharp words.
She walked down the marble steps carefully with the stroller locked.
Sarah: That is not what happened at all, Mr. Montgomery!
Victoria: Be quiet and go clean the back kitchen right now!
Arthur: Stop yelling and let her speak to me immediately!
Arthur walked toward the bottom landing with a strict heavy step.
He looked into Sarah's wide eyes and saw absolute genuine fear.
He then looked at his wife whose face was pale red.
Arthur: Sarah, tell me exactly what you just witnessed above.
Sarah: Mrs. Montgomery released the stroller brake near the edge!
Victoria: That is a complete lie from a bitter house worker!
Sarah: I had to run across the hall to catch it!
Arthur turned his head slowly toward his new elegant wife Victoria.
His dark eyebrows pulled together into a tight angry shadow today.
Arthur: Is this true, Victoria?
Victoria: Of course not, my love!
Victoria: She bumped into the stroller herself while carrying clean towels!
Victoria: She is trying to shift the blame onto me now!
Sarah held up her right hand to show the red mark.
She had bruised her skin against the heavy metal stroller frame.
Sarah: Look at my wrist where I caught the rolling frame!
Sarah: The stroller was moving fast before I stopped it cold!
Arthur reached out his hands and checked small baby Leo gently.
The infant reached up and grabbed his father's warm strong finger.
Arthur felt a cold chill run straight down his long spine.
He loved his late wife's child with every ounce of heart.
Arthur: Why would Sarah invent such a terrible horrifying story?
Victoria: Because I threatened to cut her pay yesterday afternoon!
Victoria: She wants to turn you against your own loving wife!
Sarah shook her head back and forth with deep emotional pain.
Sarah: I only care about the safety of this innocent child!
Arthur: Everyone step into the main study right this moment.
Arthur walked toward his private office with a strict heavy posture.
Victoria glared at Sarah with pure hatred behind Arthur's back.
The quiet mansion felt colder than a deep winter midnight now.