I am so confused about how this family made their money. Where is the dad? Why would the very wealthy widowed mom need to be a Baron’s mistress? Presumably her late husband or his dad was a major part of industry to have the level of money needed to pay off the FL’s family debt. So, where is this company? Why doesn’t the count guy have a steady income from it, with which he covers his sister and mom’s expenses? Wouldn’t the title he bought have launched it into even higher levels of success, even without him managing it, even if the employees were even vaguely competent? Are they third generation, and the business is long gone and they blew all the money? The author is trying make them both gauche AND poor and that is weird.
Skite
I am so confused about how this family made their money. Where is the dad? Why would the very wealthy widowed mom need to be a Baron’s mistress? Presumably her late husband or his dad was a major part of industry to have the level of money needed to pay off the FL’s family debt. So, where is this company? Why doesn’t the count guy have a steady income from it, with which he covers his sister and mom’s expenses? Wouldn’t the title he bought have launched it into even higher levels of success, even without him managing it, even if the employees were even vaguely competent? Are they third generation, and the business is long gone and they blew all the money? The author is trying make them both gauche AND poor and that is weird.