On top of that, when the viscountess began investigating the Elsheimer illegitimate child in order to drive Mort out, he felt a profound sense of crisis and wove his scheme to save his own skin.
That was the background from which the viscountess's death had arisen.
But the mindset of the Mort now looking at me registered denial.
"You're wrong, Baron of Rosenheim."
Wrong?
Was the relationship between Amalia and Adelbert something other than what I thought?
"I don't know how you learned of it, but it's true that Amalia loved Lord Adelbert. However, the one Lord Adelbert truly loved was someone else."
"Then, don't tell me..."
"Ariel von Elsheimer. Amalia's younger sister."
A cold silence seemed to settle between us.
Only now did Adelbert's strange behavior make sense.
"So there was a reason he went to the Viscount Elsheimer estate."
