The Noble Girl Living in Debt

Agnès appears in a navy blue one-piece dress made of plain cotton with a white apron and a hat made of worsted fabric (Muslin).

The hairstyle is usually braided and put on the back of the head, with a long ribbon hanging from the hat swaying slightly.

At first glance she looks like a servant, but she feels uncomfortable because of her elegance and graceful atmosphere.

The dress without cuff swelling (puff sleeve) is a long one that covers even the ankle, and the apron is popular with servants when it is light and dries well, but it is thin and transparent and cheap.

Some of the nobles were good-looking and prepared expensive dressings for their servants, but Bernard was not. Basically, clothing is left to the servant Jizil.

Such an overall anachronistic look, but when Agnes wore it, it looked elegant.

――No, it doesn't look like a servant! !

Bernard thought that if she was dressed as a servant, she would be able to manage to hide her while thinking about her treatment.

However, Agnies in front of me can only be seen as a noble lady dressed as a servant.

There was no such servant who escaped.

"That master, the cloak ..."

Agnes approaches without footsteps.

Bernard was surprised to shake his shoulder as he was thinking.

Agnes was approaching very close, even though the heart was about to jump out just by calling out.

"That's why you're close!"

"I'm sorry."

I yelled at me when I learned from my sense of distance from my husband.

Take off the cloak quickly and throw it to Agnes.

I tried to go to my room as it was, but I heard a voice from behind.

"master"

"Do you still need something?"

"Yes"

Agnies follows with a trot, following the struggle of the fork going forward.

With his breath running out, Bernard stopped, feeling a little sorry.

"And then-hey!"

"!?"

Agnes hits the back of Bernard, who stopped walking.

It was a light shock and it didn't hurt, but I was irritated by my distracted appearance and looked back in the form of anger.

"Oh, you are ..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry"

Anies apologizes. Bernard looked down at her, wrinkling her eyebrows.

"-?"

I wonder here too. Is she really Agnès Reverge?

Anies was born in the earl family with a long history who was said to be a famous family, and made a splendid social debut.

It was called a beautiful rose, and I thought she was a high-ranking daughter who looked down on the lower aristocracy.

"master?"

"!"

I was thinking vaguely in front of Agnes again.

He shakes his head and asks what he is doing.

"I'm going to do this--"

"Ah"

Agnes stretches his back properly and asks a clear voice.

"Would you like a bath or a meal?"

A bath or a meal?

That ’s what Eric always asks.

I still want to take a bath and feel refreshed because my head is still haze.

"Or maybe-"

"Isn't it still!"

Return to me by saying that and remember. One of the words Jizil heard by chance before saying to her husband Dominique.

-Do you take a bath? Did you eat? Or, what, what?

The moment it floats, Bernard turns his face red.

I wanted to yell at the servant head (Gizil) who taught me something extra, but before that, I thought it was better to control the words of Agnes.

"It's a bath!"

Say that way and go home quickly. When she heard the question, she did not follow her.

◇◇◇

Wash the sweaty body and slowly soak in the bathtub.

Suddenly it was raining.

It was not a weak rain, but a bruise.

Raindrops hitting the ground violently interfered with Bernard's thinking.

Now, I give up if I can't find an answer even if I think about it, and get out of the bathtub.

At the same time, Eric's voice was heard from outside the dressing room.

Bernard puts a towel on his shoulder and replies.

"What happened?"

"Husband, on the third floor, a leak."

"What did you say?"

The history of the residence owned by Bernard is about 100 years. While checking every six months, he cheated and lived.

To be honest, it was a ragged mansion.

I heard that the eldest daughter of Jizil, who lived in the attic, occasionally leaked rain, but this was the first time she had leaked downstairs.

Eric says that hail fell during the day, which may be the effect.

For the time being, order that first-aid measures be taken to prevent the second floor from being eroded by rainwater.

Bernard wiped his hair and body and put on his clothes.

If you run up to the third floor, you can see the babbling and servants running around.

"Oh my husband!"

"Wow, husband!"

I noticed Bernard of Carol and Celia, Jizzil's twin sisters. A beautiful girl with black hair and blue eyes.

Sisters were putting tubs under the falling rainwater.

"Husband is tough!"

"The attic is flooded!"

"!?"

I heard that the attic was the room used by Agnes.

The third floor is left to sisters and Jizil, and heads to the site where heavy rain is leaking.

When you run up the stairs, you will see a person crouching in front of the double doors at the entrance.

It was Agnes, who was in tears. Clothes and hair were slightly wet.

What I was holding to protect was my soaked luggage. It was her only personal item.

"you--"

"Ah……"

As soon as he sees Bernard, Agnies gets up in a hurry and drops his head.

I apologized with a trembling voice.

"Oh, the room was soaked, it was gone."

"What are you saying"

Push the Agnies in the center of the doorway and enter the room.

It was my first time entering the attic.

The oldest daughter of Jizil, who used to be the main, used to say, "I'm a castle just for me."

The room is in a state of light rain.

In the middle, Dominic and his second son, Allen, who was in charge of the kitchen, were hitting a plate on the ceiling.

"Hey"

"Husband"

Eric comes from behind when he tries to reach out to the two people who are working.

The business was to ask for a carpenter to come.

"I can't come to this rainy night forest."

"Now, first aid."

"It is no use hitting a board on the ceiling!"

If you put a plank, you had to make it a roof.

"Now, to Dominic"

"If such a big man rides, the roof will be broken."

"Allen is afraid of the heights, so I--

"Good, I'm going"

"but"

"This is my house!"

Give instructions to catch rain in the attic with a tub or vessel if possible.

Steal the Allen's three boards, hammer, and nails and open the window.

Outside was like a storm. A strong wind blew and it was raining sideways.

Allen looked at the situation and hurriedly tried to stop Bernard.

"My husband is dangerous!"

"The house will be flooded as it is! It's okay to manage the leaking rain!"

If my husband tells me, there is no help for it. The men go to the first floor to get a bowl.

Bernard hammered his belt and nailed his pocket. The board is held aside.

Step on the window sill and climb on the roof.

"... fucking!"

The roof was dark and nothing was visible. You need a corner light. He hurriedly returned his heels and slipped his feet on wet roof tiles, breaking his balance. However, he managed to stop and stay on the roof.

Injury if you are in a hurry. I told myself to stay calm.

Put the slabs in the roof ditches and try to go down to the attic.

The corner lamp was immediately extended from the window.

"Hey, close the window! The room gets wet."

Speaking of which, the windows were closed.

Get on the roof again and illuminate your feet with corner lights.

As Eric said, the terracotta roof tiles were broken in several places.

What kind of large hail has fallen, I will indulge deep wrinkles between my eyebrows.

We peeled off the broken roof tiles and hit a substitute board.

Three pieces are not enough, Bernard sits down on the edge of the roof and hits the windows with his heels.

Then the window was opened.

"Hey, give me more boards !!"

If indicated, one board was extended.

"One piece is not enough! More!"

When I stretched my arm and received the board, I was offered three boards that shook and shook.

Bernard takes up with one hand.

He had seven boards in all and told him to close the window.

Fortunately, there were only about ten damaged tiles.

If a substitute board is driven in, the leak will stop.

After finishing the look around the roof, Bernard descends into the attic.

There are all the servants who clean the floor.

Jizil will bring you a towel.

"-I was terrible."

After muttering, I noticed the presence of Agnes mopping the floor.

Tilt her head to her who is wetter than anyone. I hadn't been so drenched when I met earlier.

"Why are you so wet? Did you get somewhere?"

"No"

Agnes looked up at Bernard with full eyes. My shoulders were shaking and I thought it was like a kitten abandoned in the rain.

Jizil breaks in between the two.

"Mr. Agnes was carrying a board for her husband."

"Is it you?"

"Yes"

Understand that the three boards were shaking. The three weak boards would have been too heavy for a weak daughter.

"enough"

"e?"

Bernard pulls Agnes's arm and stands up.

Then he turned his body around and pushed his back towards the entrance.

"That, I-"

"Go down"

"Well, but."

"Jizzil, Carroll, and Ceria too."

He told the men that he would clean up the room, and the women ordered to change clothes.

Jizil stands up and bows.

"Now my husband, please give me your words."

"Thank you!"

"Thank you very much!"

The twins gladly thanked them and started cleaning up their cleaning tools.

Agnes is one of them.

"Let's go, Agnes, your husband's order."

"Eh? Yeah ..."

Agnes was pushed back by Jizil and got out of the room.

In the attic where the glitz has disappeared, Bernard's cleaning activities have resumed in Dominique, Eric and Allen.