Chapter 10


    <strong>Ch . 10 The Wife Looked</strong>


    The next day again I wore the servant uniform and in high spirits I worked around the inside of the mansion . However I, if I do say so myself, think that, rather than a ‘wealthy socialite wife’, I have be more of ‘maid’ or ‘servant’ . But it’s fun so it’s fine!


    Today I change the disy flower and I go along with Dahlia to the garden . I am searching for Bellis, the head gardener, to ask him which flowers would be good use when, I somehow I end up in a ce I had never been before .


    To say the least, the duke’s garden is vast .


    In time I am as fearful as a lost child .


    I truly think that when someonees to the garden alone, it would be best to bring along food in preparation if there is an ident .


    Oops, I got side tracked .


    It is an extremelyrge garden, so it is impossible to understand it all in a week at best .


    There is a section hidden among the groves of trees and small thickets .


    It bes impossible to see the mansion


    There is a small pond, and on the side of that there stands a small but elegant building . In the pond there is a water wheel, a brook is also flowing out of it . It looks like a little vi . Should I call it a small countryside house? Even so it is nicer than my parents house, I could cry .


    Facing the pond is a wood deck, on there a parasol and sofa are ced .


    On there the figures of two people can be found .


    So that they wouldn’t find us, Dahlia and I hide ourselves amongst a thicket of short bushes . We then drop down, gather branches with leaves still attached, make a camouge and secretly peak over the thicket .


    The two figures were my husband and a woman .


    “It feels like we are spies”


    I say cheerfully to Dahlia,


    “Then aren’t we peeping toms?”


    Mumbles Dahlia . Let’s pretend I didn’t hear .


    “Hey, is that building the detached building and that woman Calend?”


    I quietly ask Dahlia next to me who, like me, is camouged in branches .


    “That’s right” .


    Like before, a chill floated out of Dahlia, but let’s pretend not to notice .


    Because it’s terrible, my face doesn’t want to turn away!


    Me and Dahlia, two people with branches on their head for camouge, observing two other people . How should I put it, I am wholly very interested in peeking☆ Dahlia is shaking her head in refusal .


    I don’t know why we are peeping, the Duke and Calend are lost in their own world .


    “Calend is a very beautiful voluptuous woman~! I wonder, is she a hourss figure？I’m jealous . Her face is also beautiful”


    “Oh, the Duke is sleeping with his head in Calend’sp”


    “Looks quite like a cat” .


    “Calend is spoiling the Duke? Huh! She’sbing his hair!”


    I give amentary of the two in a low voice to myself .


    “She is four years older than Master, so she may think of him as a cute younger brother”


    Dahlia replied to mymentary in a careless way . I am curious about what she said so I interrupted my observing for a moment and looked at Dahlia .


    “Oh!, Calend is older?”


    “Yes . if I remember correctly she is 28”


    “Is that so, so the Duke has a preference for older women”


    “mmm? How is that?”,


    again Dahlia replied carelessly . If you like pretty older women, then a woman six years younger like me, you would only see a child, right . Furthermore I am far from being a hourss figure . Certainly it is Out . Of . Consideration!


    While chatting sneakily with Dahlia I also steadily keep observing what those two are doing .


    However well, how should I say,


    When you look at it objectively, it is like a ‘cat grooming’ is being done~


    The Duke, a cat with a good coat......snigger!!


    “The Duke is a cat attribute?”


    “Haaa?”


    “Look, he is a acting like a spoiled child and he has an uneven temper”


    It is a marvel because if you try do that it would look like arge cat .


    “But he wasn’t such a person before”,


    Dahlia muttered with a distant look in her eyes .


    “Oh, he was different before?”


    What does that mean?


    “Yes . As the first born of the duke house, that he is a man who is burdened by taking over from the previous duke, so from very young he studied from the previous generations with enthusiasm and the predecessors strictly taught him . ”


    “Hoho that is amon story”


    “And then around the time when he was a boy he was already set to be a reliable head of the family and everybody was expecting it but”


    “Hmm, I see”


    “Since meetingpanion-sama he haspletely be a fool and that hase to an end”


    The Duke is treated like a fool . Snigger . My mouth is likely to emit sound so I hold it back with my own hands and urge her to continue with my eyes .


    “Until then he didn’t behave like a spoiled child to anybody and grew up without being spoiled and had probably braced himself to be the person to take over the Duke house . He encounteredpanion-sama and was able to be epted not as the ‘Heir of the Duke household’ but as ‘Cercis’ . After he knew what it was like to not have to tighten your shoulder but act age appropriately spoiled, he lost his head over it”


    “oh~”


    He was being strictly regted so the reaction was intense .


    “So if a bit of reason could be worked into him, it would be good” .


    Continued Dahlia, it is regrettable that he is addicted .


    That is right .


    Cercis the juvenile (no young man?), iscking the moral tolerance of older people!


    Companion-sama was a wandering dancer . Also she has various and charming stories to hear . She is someone rich in life’s experience gained through much adversity, so it was easy to steal the heart of a naive boy who knew nothing”


    “And it reaches till now . It has been going on for a long time~”


    If I remember correctly it has been going on for six years already? In the case of such person you would think it would be easy to heat, easy to cool .


    “If the people around him are opposed it, it would probably heat it up”


    I see, certainly .


    “I see, I see . however, from what I saw, they looked to be in a very harmonious rtionship so let’s sneak out of here”


    “Eee?! Is Mistress alright with that?”


    “Yes . It is such a story and I myself do not have any such feelings of love for the Duke”


    This is an important matter .


    Because the Duke and I without feelings of love, became a couple through a contract!


    “As I thought the Master took measures right?”


    Said Dahlia looking mortified


    “I am relieved to do it exactly as it is? Besides I am having fun living here with everyone, so even if the Duke isn’t there it’s of no concern?”


    “That feels like a slight adaption but thank you”


    Dahlia gave a bitter smile .


    “Seems so . So let’s quickly look for Bellis . We’vepletely dawdled”


    I say as we have been crouched down for a while and removing any the sign of us, I leave the detached building .


    There is a big gap between the Duke I saw here and the Duke I’ve seen other ces (through mainly hearsay)! Aa, I will not do things like gap moe[1]?