Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Volume 3

“That’s right!” I exclaimed. “That would be much too sad for Charlotte! By the time she comes of age, Ferdinand will be an old man! The only husband I’ll accept for her is a kind young man who will treat her right! Not a grouch like Ferdinand!”

“Is it just me, or does Ehrenfest have an unusually large collection of absolute weirdos? There’s Professor Hirschur, Justus... I would not like to be considered among them,” I said, thinking about what to do if people started to assume I was weird by association. Ferdinand, Karstedt, and Sylvester all made inscrutable faces.
“Perhaps, at times, ignorance is bliss...” Ferdinand mused.
“What?”

Few things are more difficult than deducing Rozemyne’s intentions

I have a contingency plan that is marginally crueler than this