I hate people who keep secrets. I also hate people who look down on women. I am happy now. Goodbye. Lord Lucius.

Mildeline Hardilk, the Duke's daughter, had a fiancé. Her fiancé, Feder, believed: "A dull woman like you would have had nowhere to go if our ducal house hadn't agreed to take you as a bride. You're not worthy of being the wife of a man as beautiful as I am, but I'll tolerate it. Obey everything I say. Don't talk back. Understand? It's only natural that women step back 100 paces—no, even 3 paces—and listen to what men say." One afternoon, while having tea with her fiancé on the terrace, her newly adopted sister-in-law, Adela, appeared. "I'm Adela. Wow, you're as wonderful as a prince," Adela said. However, the words that came out of Adela's mouth were...