"Since you believe you're not that young, I won't hold back. Brother Darius? Lady Temery, start by correcting your manner of speaking. What exactly is your relationship with the Duke?"
"You!"
I snatched Rose Temery's fan and opened it.
Oh, it's a feathered fan. Quite fitting, isn't it?
Lifting my head languidly and covering my face with the fan, I now embodied the perfect villainous character.
"Such insolence again. I am the Duchess, am I not? Don't take me lightly just because I arrived today. If you continue with such disrespectful remarks, I will ban you from the Duke's castle."
"What right do you have!"
"Sigh... Due to your unpleasant words, Lady Temery, I'm banning you from the castle for a week. Go home and reflect. Next time, I hope to see you with a demeanor fitting of a noble's daughter."
I was about to pull the bell rope to call a maid, but then it happened.
"Lady Anette, please forgive Rose's rudeness."
The door burst open, and a woman entered the room with a concerned expression.
"Lady Egrette!"
"I'm sorry to greet you like this. My name is Egrette. I assist the busy Duke by managing this castle. Please, feel free to call me Lady Egrette, Lady Anette."
'Ah, what timing?'
Rose, who had been upset, suddenly seemed triumphant, as if she had found an ally.
"Yes, I've heard about you."
Egrette appeared to be in her thirties or forties, with a face too youthful to easily determine her age.
When Darius became the Duke, his relatives from the Inkheart family, concerned about his youth, appointed a guardian. Egrette was chosen at that family council. She had been managing the castle's internal affairs in Darius's stead.
In stories, when a lonely Duke brings a sunshine-like female lead to the castle, characters like her usually say, 'I always believed there was a warm corner in the master's heart. The female lead will discover it. Please bring spring to this cold castle!' But...
'She doesn't look like she'd say that.'
Rose was cornered, and then she suddenly appears.
It seems she spurred Rose Temery to come to my room and then watched from behind.
'This woman, according to the original story...'
Ah, that would be a spoiler.
"Lady Temery has been adored here as a daughter in a castle without one. She's still immature. I'll teach her well, so please show her some leniency."
"Lady Temery may be young, but you, being older than me, should have prevented her from speaking rudely."
She probably thought a newlywed like me would meekly respond with 'Yes, I'll do that.'
Lady Egrette's face hardened.
"The servants are watching. It's crucial for the new lady of the castle to establish her authority, especially now. Lady Temery openly challenged my authority. My first order after arriving was for her to reflect on her actions, and now you're asking me to rescind it."
I looked down as if disappointed.
"The Duke said Lady Egrette would assist me, but that doesn't seem to be the case."
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