I Shall Break Off Our Engagement For You
[Chapter 29]
Translated by: ME
[Welcome back, Lady Felicia.]
Alfred greeted me as I entered the mansion.
Rosemary's laughter could be heard from the living room.
[Is someone here?]
[Yes, Lord Barney and...]
Felicia tilted her head, noticing Alfred's unusual hesitation.
If Rosemary was with them, it probably wasn't a formal guest. If it were, they would be in the drawing room or her father's study.
[If Barney's here, I'll say hello.]
Instructing Carla to take the materials from her lessons to her room, Felicia headed towards the living room.
[Good day, Barney.]
[Hello, Felicia.]
Felicia gasped as she saw the person who turned to face her with Barney.
[Prince Kevin...]
[I told you to drop the 'Prince', Felicia. How have you been?]
[I'm fine. Um... yes.]
Remembering that he wanted her to be more casual, she relaxed a little.
[Have you been writing poetry?]
Asked with a carefree smile, Felicia couldn't answer immediately.
If it was just a social nicety, she would have answered [Yes.]
Even if it was a lie...
But Kevin had praised Felicia's poems and encouraged her with the expectation that she would continue to write good ones.
She didn't want to lie to someone like that.
[Actually, I haven't been writing much...]
[Eh... ?]
[I promised I'd try, but I'm sorry.]
But she couldn't write.
Ever since Felicia found several phrases in Maisie's poems that she was sure she had written herself, whenever she tried to write poetry, she would remember the unpleasant feeling she had at that time, and she couldn't write well.
She somehow managed to write the assignments given in class.
Some of them were read aloud in front of everyone as excellent works, so she thought they weren't bad.
But she didn't have the refreshing feeling of being able to freely write what she wanted to write, as she had before.
[Is there a reason?]
Felicia hesitated, met with the gazes of Kevin and Barney.
Even if it was true, she didn't want to say something that would sound like tattling or badmouthing, like [Maisie stole my poems.] She couldn't help but hesitate.
But Rosemary, who had been walking around the room humming, suddenly said it as if it were nothing.
[Maisie stole my sister's poems.]
[Eh!]
Barney and Kevin were surprised.
Barney asked, [Is that true, Felicia?] but Felicia was still hesitant.
In the meantime, Rosemary continued.
[I heard her talking to Silas about it here. And Maisie stole Rachel's poems too.]
[Ro-Rosemary, how do you know so much?]
When she talked to Silas here, Felicia only mentioned that her poems had been stolen.
[I stopped by a cafe with Bertha on the way home from school, and Rachel and the others were talking about it.]
Rosemary continued with a bright smile.
[They said that Maisie is probably stealing other people's poems too. She says she 'referred to' them or was 'influenced by' them, but they said she's obviously just copying them. They said that all the good parts feel like they've read them somewhere before. And they said that the parts that Maisie came up with herself are so bad it's painful to look at.]
Apparently, they had also said a lot of bad things about how she would try to come to gatherings she wasn't invited to, or how she would make plans without other permission and then make a resentful face when they said they couldn't go.
[She also tells everyone about helpful information like recommended stores and books as if she found them herself, but they said that's all ripped off from my sister too.]
[Rosemary...]
That was all true, though...
[Eavesdropping is bad manners.]
[I wasn't eavesdropping. I was sitting in a chair.]
[That's not what I mean...]
Felicia put her hand to her forehead and closed her eyes.
[Well, I went into the cafe because I was thirsty,but it was just Bertha and me and I was bored.]
Bertha was a maid much older than Carla.
Perhaps she and ten-year-old Rosemary, who accompanied her like a guardian, didn't have much to talk about. So she had pricked up her ears to listen to Rachel and the others at the next table.
[I heard my sister's name and I couldn't help but be curious.]
[Besides], Rosemary said with a sudden grimace.
[I hate Maisie too. So when I heard them, I was like, 'I know, right?']
Barney raised an eyebrow and asked, [Why do you hate her?]
[Because she comes to our house all the time and orders the maids around without permission, she's always clinging to my sister and she kept asking you over and over again at the party at Barney's place, 'Can't I go?' She pretends to be weak, but she's actually very brazen. She doesn't have the slightest bit of the restraint that normal people should have.]
Rosemary declared with a pout.
[Maisie has no sense of beauty.]
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