As Avis interacted with the three girls she came to know two things.

1. The women had all come from lower-income backgrounds.

2. They believed they were all going to be the mistresses of Albus.

While the second thing wasn't surprising to her the first one did leave somewhat of an impact on her.

She remembered the first time she saw how much his father offered her to work for him and she couldn't bring herself to say no. If she had, she'd either be dead or have lost most of her limbs. In a way, she saw what Albus was doing for these girls as generosity and contemplated giving them a hard time.

He said he wanted nothing romantic out of them and talked about mostly making his own maids from the ground up (whatever that meant). If these three hussies ever had the nerve to take advantage of the Albus she'd kick them out and, more importantly, take their salaries for herself.

It was initially negative but as she and Albus interacted with the girls, they soon became a cornerstone of his mansion. They all became full-fledged maids a year or so after working. Certain rumors did start popping up when this happened but the five couldn't care less. In fact, to some women in the area, he became known as somewhat of a saviour.

Somewhere you could make comfortable money while ensuring you didn't have to sell your body. This fact emboldened Albus. He had seen his idea had worked. He could create more of his perfect idea of a maid. And so he hired more and created more of his own personal maids until that became all he was known for within his family.

But he would soon realize not every woman he hired was a success.

In his study were three people, Avis, himself and another maid with grey hair, sitting in front of his desk.

Avis wore a cold expression and Albus looked excited. Sometime during his maid-hiring escapades, his uncle had volunteered to hire his formally trained maids and take them off his hands as he saw the direction Albus was heading down and found it interesting. With this Albus hired over thirty maids and the woman before them was #31.

"Happy to have you aboard Misha." He reached his hand out to shake hers.

"Oh, right, happy to work for you, Lord Bradley!" She shook his hand happily.

It took only four days after her hiring for the first incident.

As she left the dining area with some colleagues, they ran into Avis. The maids had all adopted the habit of bowing whenever they saw her which annoyed her to no end. As Misha went to bow something fell from her. It was a fork.

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Her colleagues looked confused by this and Avis immediately picked it up

"Oh, it's one of Albus's dinner forks. Thank you for finding it, Misha."

Misha had a soft smile on her face. "No worries Avis, I was just on my way to bring it to the lord himself."

She said her goodbyes and immediately left with the group.

The next incident happened when she visited the library. Avis kept an eye on her as she left and stopped her.

"Misha, you know you're not supposed to bring those books out, correct?"

The grey-haired maid looked at her with concern plastered on her face.

"Oh no, is that so? I never realised. I'm sorry, I'll put it back right away."

As she walked away, Avis had something else to say.

"And make you put back any other books taken from here as well."

"Of course." She responded, "I'll get the others immediately."

She quickly left the room.

Avis reported to her master about the two incidents.

"Hmm, those don't seem too bad," Albus responded to her info.

"My lord, might I remind you, your cutlery gifted from your uncle is made of pure silver."

"R-really!? I never really use them much unless he's over. (Wait is she implying-)" He commented.

Avis sighed and continued.

"And might I remind you of the book of ours I saw in a local pawn shop."

"Come on Avis, you aren't saying-"

Avis cut her master off. "I am saying she was attempting to steal these items. Al if you hire people like it isn't surprising this is gonna happen. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner."

"Are you sure you're not overthinking things, Avis?" He asked with his mood considerably lowered.

"Al, stop making excuses, it's clear as day what she's doing. If she's doing this stuff after being here for two weeks, imagine what she'll do in a year."

Albus groaned in displeasure and slid back in his chair.

"Tch, dammit, for the time being just call her in."

They called her in for a discussion. After a lengthy discussion and a dressing down from Avis, the girl left in tears both from regret and thankfulness she kept her job.

"Did you have to go that hard Avis?" Albus asked after talking to her.

"Albus, you shouldn't take the words of people too easily. (Though I suppose I'm to partially blame for him not being more cautious.)"

After that meeting her antics stopped for a week. Then Avis once checked in on her and found more money than she could have possibly had. She checked with the other maids and sure enough, they had noticed missing some small quantities of money.

She reported this again to her master and they had a serious discussion about letting her go. During this discussion, his uncle happened to stop by and overheard the conversation.

"Albus, is it so hard to let this one woman go?" He asked. His uncle was a portly fellow and had a face most people were convinced couldn't show anger.

"Yes, Master Bradley, my lord is having a hard time letting her go, I'm hoping you can convince him."

"No, I'm just saying maybe she deserves another chance ya know. Imagine if I wrote you off for one mistake." He said while looking at Avis. "I want to give her a proper chance."

Before Avis could open her mouth, the portly man raised his hand and Avis let him go ahead.

"Why don't you entrust her with me? I got some proper maids with me." Albus and Avis both opened their eyes in shock. "I'll have them keep an eye on her and try to lead her down the right path if she strays. They're good at dealing with that sort of thing."

"Are you sure Uncle Choeros?"

"Of course just leave her to me."