Because he was hearing this for the first time, grandpa Rufus sneered. He never liked Ruth; he always found her to be to too calculating. She had always been nothing like the rest of the Mayfair's. It had not come as a shock to learn that the cuckoo wave and her plotting had swept her away.
"Ruth is back. Why is that cuckoo back and what is this about a faceless master? Why am I hearing of this for the first time?" He asked in a stern voice.
They all took took turns in explaining everything about Ruth, all the evil she had done, her incarceration in the mental asylum and escape. They did not forget to include the fact that she was back, and she had been to the tower.
Then, David added Ophelia to the story narrating it up to her accidental death. It was either Maureen had killed her or the master she served had put a spell on her soul and killed her when she tried to give up his identity.