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Mellie spent her first night in her new home almost without sleep – she sorted through the accumulated information and impressions.

Firstly, she almost failed the interview, so decided to fill in the gap and learn a couple more languages. It is unknown where and with whom her life will throw in the future (and she absolutely had no doubt that her life would be long and interesting), but it certainly won’t be superfluous. Languages were easy for her, so she didn’t see any problems in achieving her goal. Moreover, there was someone to practice her speaking with.

Secondly, her employer turned out to be a very interesting person. He was an incomprehensible person… But, whatever it was, he was still a man – aged and in a wheelchair, and she was a young girl, she was full of life, so it shouldn’t have been difficult to fall in love with him. The main thing was to find the right approach. Usually, Mellie understood at first glance (very rarely from the second) how and what she needed to do to fully clarify the situation, but here… Nothing was clear. Her boss acted like he was the king of the entire universe. His whole appearance said: «I am not interested in what you think about me, the main thing is what I think about you!».

To be honest, the girl expected to meet with a rare bore in an old dressing gown and a hood, an embittered grouch for the whole world because of his illness. And here… It was very interesting… Especially considering that he wasn’t interested in women. More precisely, perhaps he was interested in them, but that’s how they say: «The eye sees, but the tooth is numb». But it didn’t seem to bother him at all.

Mona told while cooking dinner that Mr. Mellone’s disability was the result of a car accident. He barely survived then. It seems that some kind of evil fate was chasing him, because a month after what happened to him, his wife died in a car accident. A young secretary of his wife died in the same accident. It was rumored that she and Mr. Malone seemed to have an affair, but Mona did not believe it, because she saw how much the owner loved his wife.

– Poor fellow, he changed so much for the worse after the news of his wife death, – telling, Mona secretly wiped her tears. – And he stayed in a wheelchair. He moved here after everything that happened to him. It used to be some kind of forestry, but Mr. Mellone redid everything and arranged it to his liking. Now it has become a whole kingdom! However, no one ever comes here. We live very secluded. These are Mr. Mellone’s rules. But everyone who lives here is quite happy with this, because the owner helped everyone very much at one time, and people are happy to share his loneliness with him as a sign of gratitude.

Millie listened, memorized, but for some reason the picture did not add up, no matter how hard she tried. Therefore, the girl promised herself to thoroughly sort everything out, since there was plenty of time.