Chapter 43 – Doubt
As soon as Carolyn got home, she went to visit her father’s office.
It was a space closer to a personal study than an office, but the word office was remembered in her mind.
Greeted by passing ladies-in-waiting, she was on her way to the second floor.
Originally, the story of the exchange student she went to should have been the main focus, but…
She had more important problems than that.
That her own sister started dating someone.
She didn’t hate the other sex or avoid dating, but she couldn’t get past what she was told to get her scabs in her ears.
Deportment.
It did not prevent free love relationships, but the targets were limited.
From that point of view, his existence was unacceptable.
Knock Knock
She knocked on her door.
“Come in.”
Heard her father’s voice.
“Sherry…It’s Carolyn.”
“I’m home.”
It was yesterday that he had come, but today was the first time he had seen her father, so she said hello.
Before that, there was something that caught her attention.
Ceria.
She was her father, whom she had never called her sister by name until after she had left home.
She wasn’t very interested in her brother, but she knew what her father thought of her brother.
It would be more strange to not know the situation when he didn’t even call his name.
However…
Her father, like her, was calling her by name.
What wind blows?
“Did you have a good trip?”
It was common sense to speak of ‘results’.
That’s how she was Carolyn, who started talking about the results she had achieved.
“Good job.”
Fortunately, her father seemed content.
Since she had never been dissatisfied with herself from before, she passed it off as if it were natural.
As the conversation was about to end, she decided to ask the question in her mind.
“By the way, Father.”
“You call Seria by name?”
A way of speaking as if it were really passing by.
It was her natural that she had always learned to hide her own intentions as best she could.
“Ah, that’s what you mean.”
“Seria’s grades have improved a lot.”
How good has she become that her father must be satisfied?
She was able to get a rough idea of her, for she knew that her brother had always been up to her own standards.
“Wasn’t she the kind of girl who didn’t like to do it? What the wind was blowing.”
He started telling me everything to see if he was really happy with the results.
“Your mother called in a new tutor at the beginning of last year. Maybe after you left?”
Although I found out a little later.
With that said, he continued his story.
“Maybe he taught well. At some point, his grades started to rise.”
“Now it’s similar to your previous grades.”
She was always aiming for her perfect score, so her question was heard all the more.
How well do you teach your child to get such good grades?
No, he was a kid who didn’t really like doing it in the first place.
It was a suspicion that I had a while ago, but there was definitely something.
“Really? That person must have been really good at motivating me. If that’s enough for him to study hard.”
“It’s a good thing.”
By the way.
She’s so lucky
“Could that be Edward Weiss?”
“How do you know him?”
“We met at school.”
“I see. He’s a good person to be friends with.”
Seeing that his father, who was originally strict, said something like this, he was clearly a person with something.
“There seems to be something between the two.”
He looked at her and gave her a questioning look.
“What do you mean by that?”
Now that the subject has been brought up, it is time to provide evidence.
“I’ve been talking to him and it seems like we have feelings for each other.”
It was like saying that a person without such a foundation should not have such feelings for a person in the Fellowes family, but
That wasn’t her intention.
I was really just stating the facts.
Common sense, based on the story she had been told, shouldn’t have allowed it.
It’s not that love was denied, but the target should be a person of a similar class as yourself.
In that case, it didn’t matter whatsoever.
It’s just that she never did.
A strict father in this respect must have been angry.
But it didn’t.
As if it doesn’t matter.
“Okay?”
With only one word left, he looked like he was no longer interested.
She felt uncomfortable.
Common sense was denied.
By this time, she felt strange at the distance from what she had been told.
What did she mean by what she had heard all this time?
Deportment
Speech
And love relationship
She had a lot of restrictions and she had only thought that she should be, but she couldn’t understand the current situation.
“Are you not stopping me?”
She was the one who didn’t understand what was going on.
Neglecting a relationship with someone you don’t even know the fundamentals of?
What did she mean by what she had been hearing all this time?
What on earth had happened to that man to make his father say such a thing?
“Never mind that matter.”
It was a confirmation kill.
A urge not to get involved any further.
She couldn’t say anything more and left her room.
It felt like 20 years of her life had been denied.
The feelings of a person who was broken from the fact that he had to be that way were really complicated.
I had to know. What happened
As she went up to her room, she happened to see her lady-in-waiting, so she grabbed her and began to ask.
Information was needed.
“What are you doing, lady?”
“Do you know anything about the tutoring Seria said?”
“Ah, lady, you don’t know. It started around the beginning of last year or so.”
At the beginning of last year, it was quite old.
“I know the hostess brought it, but why…?”
Mother?
“Go ahead.”
“After he came, the little girl’s grades went up a lot. So the head of the household was also satisfied.”
“Then he didn’t come around summer or something, and he came back around autumn.”
Existence of voids.
And the tutoring that continues to this day.
What is the connection?
“Oh, and then the little girl seemed to look at him a little differently.”
“It was the kind of look that seemed to care about him.”
The lady-in-waiting was talking with her eyes twinkling, just like a girl of her age.
A tutor and a young lady.
It was a topic that could not be lacking even if it was written as a novel.
“That’s all I know.”
A state of heart but no physical evidence.
Father knows to some extent.
What about your mother?
Her mother’s opinion was probably convincing.
Since before, she was in the position that her mother could let go of that to some extent.
A feeling that takes two forms.
It was information that made a rough frame, but it was empty here and there.
Since she was going to run into him during the semester anyway, she didn’t need to interrogate him either.
She went back to her room with her resolve.
The mind of a person with broken common sense was really complicated.
The decision was going to bring a blue wave, but no one expected it at that time.
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Back in time, it was when Edward arrived at the Fellowes Mansion.
It was Seria who saw Edward, who was making a complicated expression today.
“Teacher is living with worry.”
She was joking, but she was really curious about what was going on.
It was only natural that she wanted to know everything about him, including his thoughts and feelings.
“I met Seria’s older sister.”
Her own sister?
Seria had not been very good with her sister’s feelings, but she wasn’t like that these days.
Naturally, it was because he had already filled in the valley her sister had made.
“Your sister? Where?”
It was she who was trying to figure out if there was a point of contact with her.
“At school. Same class.”
It was she who realized that her older sister was still in college.
However, she was Seria, who had never imagined being in the same class as him.
“So? What happened?”
That was the story he told.
While calling attendance, she heard the surname Feroz.
So she remembered her sister’s existence during her story she had told her.
She does and she happens to eat, but then she seems to have found out about their relationship.
‘Oh, the teacher is so cute that he’s suffering from something like this.’
“It’s okay. Teacher, there’s nothing to worry about.”
Even though she never really did.
Her own father even gave her nuanced words to somehow hold him back in the first place.
But there was no way to explain it to him, so I just said it was okay.
He still shouldn’t have known.
‘If it’s her sister’s personality… I don’t think she’ll care much.’
However, it took the meal that she had had earlier to think so optimistically.
She soon decided to ignore it.
What would you do if you knew
She’s already recognized.
She chose to forget.
“You have to go to class, sir.”
Her time with the person in front of her now was more important to her.
