I Shall Break Off Our Engagement For You
[Chapter 28]
Translated by: ME
Felicia herself didn't care at all about the broken engagement with Silas.
Even when she saw Maisie gleefully puffing out her chest, she could only sigh inwardly, thinking, [Oh dear]
Maisie seemed to be in very high spirits, but Felicia wondered if she would be alright.
She even considered such things calmly.
She had heard from her father that the Haymer family's finances were in dire straits.
Yet they seemed to have no intention of stopping their extravagant lifestyle nor of increasing their income through their own efforts so he couldn't offer them any assistance.
Therefore her father had said that if Felicia didn't care for Silas, he would gladly call off the engagement.
He had also said that he was glad they didn't have to become relatives.
Baron Goddard, her mother's younger brother and Felicia's uncle was a kind and gentle man but somewhat easily swayed.
He was earnestly engaged in business so he had a reasonable amount of assets but her mother sometimes lamented that since he remarried Maisie's mother he had been completely dominated by her.
[I'm worried about Daphne because she's a difficult person. I'm glad the Goddard family's assets belong to Agnes. If they were in Bernard's name, that woman might have taken everything by now.]
Daphne was the name of Maisie's mother. Bernard was her uncle, Baron Goddard.
Since her uncle was an adopted son-in-law, when the previous Baroness passed away, all the assets were inherited by Agnes, her daughter.
Her uncle held the title of Baron as Agnes' guardian, but the right to inherit that title was not granted to all of her uncle's children.
From the beginning, it was decided that the next Baron would be Agnes' husband.
Maisie, being the daughter from his wife's previous marriage, would not be given any property or status.
Depending on her marriage prospects, she would probably be given a certain amount of dowry but it wouldn't be an amount that could be called wealth.
Money wasn't everything but Felicia wondered how Silas, who was trying to become Felicia's adopted husband for the sake of money and Maisie, who would be penniless if she left the baronial family planned to live if they married.
She smiled wryly, wondering if she was worrying about something that was none of her business.
(Well, whatever...)
In the end, it was someone else's problem.
Although, since they were relatives she couldn't say they were complete strangers.
However, the Erhardt family family felt that the only people connected to them were their uncle, Baron Goddard and Agnes, who inherited his bloodline.
It wasn't that they couldn't accept her uncle's new family but rather that they couldn't bring themselves to accept them because the new family was too shady.
In a way, they just didn't click.
She thought they could have gotten along better if they were more [normal] people.
In fact, in the beginning, her mother had told Felicia, [Now that you're cousins, you should get along with Maisie.]
It was difficult to explain the [feeling] when they didn't click.
It was also difficult to explain what [normal] meant when she thought, [Normal people wouldn't do that.]
Calling it a sense of aesthetics might sound pretentious but in the end that might be the only way to express that aspect.
There was no pride or beauty in a way of life that shamelessly leaned on others for one's own desires. She felt a slight aversion to that.
Felicia wanted to live as beautifully as possible, and she thought she liked people who wanted to live beautifully.
She didn't want to live a life where she didn't care about other people's circumstances and only cared about herself, and when she was around such people, she thought, [Ugh...]
Even if poor, one should have a beautiful heart.
That was her ideal.
She believed that if she was in an economically and socially privileged position like she was now, she should work even harder.
Her father, mother and younger sister Rosemary probably felt the same way.
Same with her uncle too.
Her uncle seemed to have been left out of the loop.
The engagement between Maisie and Silas seemed to have been proposed by the two of them and then facilitated by the Baroness and the Haymer family.
The way they did it was so unconventional that she could only be dumbfounded but in the end, she wondered if that was why they didn't understand...
As Felicia walked along the path to the mansion with her maid Carla, she thought.
She wondered if the Haymer family didn't know that Maisie had no right to inherit the title or property and if Maisie and her mother didn't know that the Haymer family was in financial distress.
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