Carla and Stella try to keep their relationship a secret, but get caught kissing by Maria. Much to Carla’s surprise, Maria keeps their secret from Ansgar and even tries to get to know Stella better.

Carla (Claudia Hiersche, left) and Stella (Anne Wis)

Monday, August 10th, 2009 (3443)

No Carla & Stella scenes.

Carla is still at Waldensteyck. Meanwhile, Stella offers her cousin Christian a job at Königsbrunn. When butler Justus tries to give Christian a hard time, Stella wants to support him, but Christian manages to handle the situation all by himself.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 (3444)

Stella is talking with butler Justus about the cook, who has been using too much salt lately. They speculate whether she might be in love, but Stella makes clear that even that wouldn’t be an excuse for not doing her job properly. Justus tells Stella that he liked hearing that from her, and looks at her in a strange way.

That’s Carla’s cue to enter the kitchen. In a stern tone, she complains to Justus that there were branches in the driveway. As Justus leaves to take care of the branches, Carla can barely stop herself from laughing about her made-up task. When they are finally alone, Stella teases Carla that branches in the driveway were really inexcusable. Carla tells Stella that she just couldn’t bear being without Stella for one more second. She hugs Stella from behind, and they start to kiss.

At the family lunch, Ansgar complains about the food. Stella, who happens to be in the dining room, overhears this. After sharing a brief and annoyed look with Carla, she patiently offers to have something else prepared for him. When Ansgar instead considers firing the cook, like he had fired the housemaid the week before, Stella tells him that she had to take that firing back because it hadn’t been legal. When Ansgar gets angry and reprimands Stella, Carla intervenes and tells him that Stella had acted under her orders. Ansgar replies that Carla didn’t have the right to do that, since she wasn’t head of the family anymore, and asks Maria, who still poses as Ansgar’s and Carla’s mother Francesca von Lahnstein, for her opinion.

When Maria backs Ansgar up, Carla is annoyed and disappointed and leaves the dining room, fighting back tears. Maria follows her into the entrance hall and tries to explain her behaviour, but Carla is too angry to listen. She reminds Maria of what a monster Ansgar has become and that it had been him who had brought about Carla’s arrest and time in prison a few months earlier. Of course, Ansgar interrupts them, and Carla leaves.

Meanwhile, Stella has returned to her office, where she is having a chat with her cousin.  Christian quickly notices that something is going on with Stella. He asks her whether she was in love and who it was, and she finally whispers to him that it was Carla.

Christian (Thore Schölermann) is surprised by Stella’s news

Unfortunately, Carla is standing behing the office door and overhears their conversation. She enters the office and asks to talk to Stella in private, but instead of kissing her (like last time), she blames Stella for sharing their secret with Christian. Carla is worried that now Ansgar might find out and, together with “their mother” Maria, will make their life a living hell just to get rid of her. Without hearing Stella out, Carla storms out.

Later, Stella hears how some of the staff is gossiping about Louise. She gets angry and tells them that she would not accept any gossip about the masteries.

Meanwhile, Leo tries to calm Carla down. She finally tells him that she and Stella were now a couple (which was great), but that she was worried that people would start gossiping about them once they found out. Leo eventually manages to convince Carla that Christian would keep their secret, that her worries were unfounded and that she couldn’t blame Stella for the difficult situation with Ansgar and Maria.

Leonard (Lars Korten) tries to talk sense into Carla

Ruefully, Carla returns to Stella’s office and apologizes to her, telling Stella that whatever she had said earlier was nonsense. Stella tries to act like she’s still angry with Carla, but quickly gives in and accepts Carla’s apology.

Carla tells Stella that she was worried that Ansgar might go after Stella as well if he found out about them. Stella promises to not talk about their relationship anymore. They smile at each other, and Stella pulls Carla to a sofa in the corner of her office. They tell each other that from now on, they would be very careful, and start to kiss.

Of course, this is when Maria enters the room and finds them in a passionate embrace…

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