Understanding

Although he was boring and traditional, he was someone who followed the rules.

She married him only because their family backgrounds matched and she was following the family's arrangement. She had been dissatisfied by how the Prime Minister behaved when she was still young, and thought that he was way too strict. She thought that a young person at his age with such a mature mind would make life boring.

Occasionally, she would get together with her friends who talked about their own husbands. And the only good things she could say about her own husband was that he was mature for his age. He was behaving so politely even in front of her.

She tended to make complaints in front of her mother when she was still young, and she once groaned over this drawback.

Now more than a decade had passed and the Prime Minister had not changed a bit.