Formidable Parent and Child
I have something I’ve always thought about.
It’s about the two types of people who gather together.
People with ambition and people without ambition.
It seems that my Father-in-law and Marie belong to the latter group.
The two of them have achieved many things purely through goodwill, without any ambition.
“My stomach… it hurts.”
“Are you alright?”
“I’m sorry.”
Invited to the Duke of Heinsch’s house, Marie gradually went from being the Duchess’s conversation partner to becoming her friend.
“I apologize.”
“No, it’s fine.”
To be honest, the treatment she’s receiving now was stomachache-inducing.
“Princess… no, Madam has been weak since childhood and couldn’t attend school properly.”
“I have heard about that.”
“Due to her position, it was difficult for her to attend classes like a normal student, and she was looked at by other students with rose-colored glasses.”
As a Royal and a princess, it might be inevitable.
But did she really not have a single person she could trust and call a friend?
“However, Madam had someone she admired.”
“Admired?”
“Yes, there was a fellow female student who was kind to her during her school days.”
There are probably many people who were kind to a princess.
Although some may have ulterior motives.
“This student offered a handkerchief to her when she fell ill and was about to vomit, without knowing her status.”
“Is that so?”
“And then, she brought a bouquet of lavender to the infirmary.”
Wait a minute.
If I recall correctly, that was around our second year.
“That female student was Marie.”
“I knew it.”
She fell ill as an underclassman, and Marie made a bouquet of lavender she cultivated herself and sent it as a get-well gift.
I heard that the student was often absent from school due to her weak health, and she couldn’t attend classes in the classroom and cried.
“The bouquets arrived frequently.”
“They did. That happened.”
Marie had a tendency to meddle in other people’s affairs.
But she did everything out of pure kindness, without expecting anything in return.
Without realizing it, she had helped a member of the Royal family.
And not only that, she admires the two parent and child even more because they are both selfless.
“People who approached Madam always had ulterior motives.”
“Sigh…”
“Others looked down on her if they couldn’t use her due to her frailty. Only Lady Marie was different.”
Well, Marie probably didn’t know her fellow student was a princess since she was from a remote area and hadn’t made her debut in high society, so it was only natural for her to be kind to an underclassman.
“But I wasn’t certain until they came to the Duke’s house. However, when I saw the gifts for our Madam, I became convinced it was her.”
“Is that so?”
Could it be that Lady Oriana heard about Marie from somewhere?
And that’s why she chose her as a conversation partner?