Rumors spread fast but not as fast as Daisy would have liked. Whenever she went into town, people started asking her where her 'devoted bodyguard' went and she had to coolly explain that her fiancé was off making a living in the capital before coming back to marry her.
Sometimes she had to get argumentative with men who thought 'out of the way' meant 'out of mind'. What kind of two-timing creep did they think she was?
She was getting seriously annoyed. If faking an engagement hadn't been enough to get people to leave her alone, what would be? At this point, she wondered if she would be left alone even if she did marry somebody eventually.
