"What?"
Arabella Donovan's words surprised the other people in the room.
Ms. Kerr immediately turned to her friend. "You two have met before?"
The woman hadn't expected Arabella Donovan to remember her and said uncertainly, "I think we saw each other from a distance at the exhibition hall."
"Then what's this about you speaking up for her?"
"It wasn't so much speaking up for Miss Donovan. I was just telling the truth."
"I'll tell you what happened."
As it turned out, back at the auction house's exhibition hall, Timothy Donovan and Victor Donovan had approached Arabella Donovan. They not only subtly implied she was just a freeloader who had only gained Dennis Donovan's favor by riding on Guinevere Preston's coattails, but they were also openly and covertly jealous. They passive-aggressively suggested Arabella was unworthy of her position and tried to use their status as her elders and 'brothers' to put her down and break her spirit.
