I actually didn't expect this, but I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing how things shape up between the mistress and her daughter. To me, it seems like living in their previous home under whatever arrangement she had with her then-husband, the mistress was probably miserable and constrained, and now as seen in this chapter has a lot more room to just be a whole person, in large part thanks to her adorable and increasingly attractive maid, with whom there are also developments I'm dying to see take shape. Definitely a surprise for me, and a rather pleasant one.