"WHEN WILL your maid return?"
"Oh, Dal?" Zoe asked while tying the box in Runa's hair. She and her daughter were sitting on the couch side-by-side. "She'll be back next week."
"What happened?" Isaak, who was sitting on the couch across from them, asked curiously. "Why did she suddenly leave the mansion?"
"She left a letter for me," she explained. "Apparently, her aunt fell sick while we were away. Her aunt was the owner of the inn that we stayed at when we visited the port town before. Do you remember that place?"
His face lit up. "Of course. How can I forget where you proposed to me?"
"Yeah, I can't forget it either," she said teasingly. "How can I forget when you proposed to me without a ring?"
He flinched.
[Oh, wait. That was supposed to be a joke!]
She didn't mean to sound like she was criticizing him for it. The ring wasn't important, since they could get it anytime they wanted.