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Everybody in the room was startled enough to miss the insane bright spark quickly lit up in the lady's lifeless eyes. The lord was finding it quite strange for the butler to be announcing directly looking at the lady, it would have felt like a challenge to the only woman in the room, but the concern he had over the impending arrival of his heir was the most important thing. He tried to keep his hands steady, taking a huge gulp from his glass of wine, and asked quietly. "How far apart are the contractions now?" He had done his homework on the topic and thereby, could guess that labor had started.