Ch.10 The Wife Looked
Authors note:
Viola has thoroughly become like a servant (haha)
The duke is a disappointment. Sorry. m( _ _ )m
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 become more of ‘maid’ or ‘servant’. But it’s fun so it’s fine!
Today I change the display 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 place 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 someone comes to the garden alone, it would be best to bring along food in preparation if there is an accident.
Oops, I got side tracked.
It is an extremely large 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 becomes 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 villa. 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 placed.
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 camouflage 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 Calendula?”
I quietly ask Dahlia next to me who, like me, is camouflaged 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 camouflage, 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 Calendula are lost in their own world.
“Calendula is a very beautiful voluptuous woman~! I wonder, is she a hourglass figure？I’m jealous. Her face is also beautiful”
“Oh, the Duke is sleeping with his head in Calendula’s lap”
“Looks quite like a cat”.
“Calendula is spoiling the Duke? Huh! She’s combing his hair!”
I give a commentary 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 my commentary in a careless way. I am curious about what she said so I interrupted my observing for a moment and looked at Dahlia.
“Oh!, Calendula 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 hourglass 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 a large 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 a common story”
“And then around the time when he was a boy he was already set to become a reliable head of the family and everybody was expecting it but”
“Hmm, I see”
“Since meeting companion-sama he has completely become a fool and that has come 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 encountered companion-sama and was able to be accepted 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 regulated 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?), is lacking 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 relationship 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’ve completely 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 places (through mainly hearsay)! Aa, I will not do things like gap moe[1]?
Authors note:
Thank you for today as well（*＾－＾*）
The main house and the detached building have the image of a a bit more reduced Versailles and le Petit Trianon（＾－＾）
The Duke. If you thought his appearance after a long time was bitterly disappointing. Sorry (sweat)
T/N:
[1] Gap moe (ギャップ萌え) for the those who do not know, happens when a character sees another character do something contradicting to what their usual habits/looks/character etc. dictates, resulting in them having a crush on them.
We finally get some more of the Duke and Calendula! Also Viola and Dahlia doing a bit of this: