<h4>Chapter 1704: Chapter 1698: The Provocation in this is too Obvious</h4>


    "Miss Joanna, no one is here, can I sit here?" Diana Kinsman lightly swung the wine ss in her hand, smiling as she asked.


    Joanna Lawrence was taken aback, she nodded lightly and said, "Sure."


    Joanna Lawrence and Diana Kinsman were not familiar with each other.


    So after responding, she bent her head down to attack the pastries on her te, not looking at Diana Kinsman again.


    But she could feel that Diana was continuously sizing her up.


    Joanna Lawrence pretended to know nothing, focusing on eating her pastries.


    Diana looked at her with interest, watching Joanna as she calmly continued eating the food on her te. Diana couldn’t help but feel a sense of admiration.


    She had a soft and weak, silly and sweet appearance but her personality was not like that at all.


    But that was fine as well.


    If she was really just a naive, sweet and stupid girl, then Diana might find it dull.


    She preferred things that posed a challenge to her.


    "Miss Joanna." Diana, of course, felt that Joanna didn’t want to pay her any attention, but she didn’t mind, she initiated the conversation with Joanna, "I’ve heard Lady Octavia talk about you before this, I assumed that you were an unreasonable and difficult person. But today when I see you, you don’t look like the person Lady Octavia described. Could it be that because you have some disagreements with Lady Octavia, she has some prejudice and hence she described you this way?"


    Joanna had just swallowed a piece of cake when she heard these words, and she looked up.


    Her eyes carried some surprise.


    Diana met her gaze without flinching and looked at her, smiling,"Although this is the first time I’m meeting Miss Joanna and I don’t know much about her, it’s true that a person’s face reveal certain characteristics of their personality. "


    "I look at Miss Joanna, her face is very gentle, she seems to be a very good-natured person."


    Joanna stared at Diana in surprise for a few seconds, she pursed her lips and said lightly, "Miss Kinsman, if you speak this way about my mother-inw behind her back, aren’t you afraid that I might tell her about it? You seem to have a good rtionship with my mother-inw. It’s not very nice to talk behind her back like this, right?"


    The fact that Diana said these things indeed shocked Joanna.


    She was essentially talking behind Lady Octavia’s back.


    Joanna could tell that Lady Octavia liked Diana a lot, Lady Octavia looked at Diana with a gaze full of admiration.


    This was simr to how she liked Reba.


    The fact that Lady Octavia brought Diana back home in such a banquet meant she indeed had high hopes for her.


    However, Diana’s behavior was...


    Joanna was not a fool, she quickly inferred that Diana was trying to sow discord between her and Lady Octavia.


    Lady Octavia may have said those things.


    But Diana ryed these words back to her.


    It was quite clear, she was stirring up the pot.


    When Joanna looked at Diana again now, there was a clear level of scrutiny.


    "I believe Miss Joanna isn’t that kind of person." Diana had no flicker of unease in her eyes, she maintained her calm and poised look, sheughed softly, "Besides, I was just telling the truth, how does that count as backbiting?"


    "It would only be counted as backbiting if I sensationalized and spoke untrue things."


    Joanna’s expression remained unchanged, she stared at her for a few seconds and then said casually, "But Miss Kinsman should know that since you called me unreasonable and difficult in front of my mother-inw, you must have thought I would be displeased with my mother-inw after hearing these words."


    "Miss Kinsman is my mother-inw’s friend. So, is it decent for you to try to sow discord between her and her daughter-inw?"