CH 219

A week has passed since the debutante banquet.

I’ve had peaceful days.

Of course, the day after the banquet, I was exhausted and stayed in the room all day.

After that, I went to play at Jake’s house or had tea time with Alice.

‘Today is…… Since I don’t have any special appointments, maybe I should go out with the nanny to the downtown area after a long time? No, I’m all grown up now, so I don’t have to go with the nanny. Ok, fine. So today I’ll go out by myself.’

As soon as I woke up in the morning, I had a light meal and imagined what I was going to do for the day.

But before I could go out ambitiously on my own, something happened.

“Miss, Miss!”

“What’s wrong, nanny?”

In the nanny’s arms as she approached me with an excited expression, there was a basket full of some sort of papers.

“Well, these letters are all invitations to a meeting addressed to our Miss Mir.”

“What?”

As I widened my eyes, the nanny held up invitations one by one and explained.

“This is a tea party at the County next week, this is a reading group hosted by the Viscounty this weekend, and this…….”

The number of invitations I received was over ten.

‘I heard that you can start socializing in earnest after your debutante, right?’

I heard stories from my parents and nanny, but it was a new feeling to receive invitations with my name on it.

There were some gatherings that seemed to have invited all the high-ranking nobles above the County, but there were also cases where I was invited by the nobles who I had exchanged a few words with at the banquet.

‘Is it possible that they wanted to get to know me?’

Recalling the Ladies and Lords who greeted me first, I smiled bashfully.

‘I’m going to write a reply right now! I will definitely go.’

I asked the nanny to hand me a pen and letter, and I immediately started writing my replies.

“Let’s see. Oh, do these two meetings have the same date? Where should I go…….”

At that time, I was thinking about various things and writing down answers with sincerity.

Again, the nanny told me.

“Lady, Young Duke Jake is here.”

“Oh, can you tell him that I’ll be there soon? No, just tell him to come to my room.”

It was a pity to leave him alone in the parlor, and most of all, I wanted to show off these invitations to Jake.

‘Of course, Jake would have gotten more invites than I did.’

After a while, Jake appeared.

“Mir, good afternoon.”

“Yes, Jake. Nice to meet you. Would you like to see these?”

As I spoke, Jake walked over to the desk and looked at the pile of invitations.

“…… What is all this?”

“Right, as you can see, these are meeting invitations. Look. At that time, the children of the family who greeted me at the debutante invited me.”

I smiled broadly, and Jake nodded his head as if he understood it.

“…… I guess everyone wants to be close to you. Well, if I were from a different family, I would have done it.”

“Ahaha, Jake! You know how to make funny jokes these days? Rather, take a look at this invitation. It is said that only families of Marquisates and higher can come. It’s a tea party where not only ladies but also Lords can get along. Did you get an invitation here too?”

Jake seemed to ponder my question for a moment, then nodded his head.

“Yes.”

“It seemed so. Then we can attend together.”

“Alright, good.”

For some reason, Jake graciously expressed his intention to attend the meeting without hesitation.

I thought I’d have to persuade him a little more, but what’s going on?

Then Jake asked.

“Are these letters all just invitations to meetings?”

“Yes? What does that mean?”

As he tilted his head not knowing the intentions, Jake hesitated a little and continued.

“…… So, you don’t happen to receive…… courtship letter or something like that , have you?”

What? I rolled my eyes.

‘A courtship letter? Courtship? That won’t happen to me!’

Most of the people who spoke to me at the banquet hall were ladies my age.

Of course, I had a few conversations with the lords.

However, most of them came because they were curious about me who had great friends rather than a rational interest in me.

‘Ah, indeed. There were a few lords who tried to ask me to dance, right?’

But all those lords backed off without even holding my hand because of Jake’s sabotage.

After thinking about it, I shook my head resolutely.

“I didn’t even get one. That won’t come to me. Even if it comes…… Wouldn’t it come before my family instead of in front of me?”

Presumably, in the Empire’s noble society, arranged marriages which focused on family interests, were more common than love marriages.

Therefore, even if a courtship letter came, it was obvious that it would arrive with the name of Marquisate Saeron.

Responding to my answer, Jake looked very bewildered.