"Thank you for guiding Sir Streit, Mühe."
"I'll do anything you ask of me."
Lady Mühe's manner was very polite and courteous. Through Hilda, I had come to understand how beautiful a woman could be when she gave a genuine smile, and Mühe's smile was much the same.
I had no idea what kind of relationship the two women had, but my head was a mess right now and I couldn't think straight. The middle-aged woman in front of me had just introduced herself as the wife of Klugen, the Rose Knight.
I dug carefully through my memory.
When Old Man Bertheim had asked me to find Klugen, he'd said it was the dying wish of a handmaid he'd loved like a granddaughter. I'd brushed it off as just another story, but I never imagined I'd run into her here.
"I'm sorry for deceiving you against my own wishes."
"You're perfectly alive. Why did you pretend to be dead?"
