Linda and I returned back to where Becca was waiting once we finished agreeing to our deal. On our way back, I quickly grabbed a lightning magic book, so Becca would not be suspicious. When I turned the corner, I saw Becca with a wide grin on her face as she look through a book she had brought.
'She is that happy to help me study? We should come here more often then.'
I put my hand on her back as a pulled up a chair next to her. "Hey Becca, we are back."
Becca quickly returned to her normal straight face and turned towards me.
"Great, let's get started! Linda, please wait outside and don't let anyone enter. Call us from the entrance if you really need us for something."
Linda bowed, "yes my Lady, I won't make any mistakes this time."
As Linda left I asked, "so where should we start?"
Becca moved the book she was reading in between us, so we could look at it together.
"I don't know much about the politics of the male nobles, but I know a lot about the dynamics of the female nobles at social gatherings. I'm first going to show you the number one person that we need to convince to be on our side if we want our new laws to be seen positively by noble women. Her opinion will convince others to also openly favor the new laws."
"I see, so this is the big boss that we have to turn to our side if we want to truly change society for the better instead of just forcing people to change through an iron fist."
Becca nodded her head seriously, "exactly. Luckily for us, I think she is the kind of person who would be happy with the changes we are planning to make.
Her name is Martha Lancaster. She is the wife of one of the two Marquesses in the Duchy, so she herself is a Marchioness. At the social gatherings she hosts, she does not like to be called Marchioness Lancaster. Instead, she tell people to call her Madam Martha."
I smiled at our good luck. "Interesting, so she also does not like the noble etiquette that is forced on people and made her own change."
"Yes, she prefers to be more personal with people than the normal relationship between nobles. It is one of the reasons that people like her enough to make her the current social circle leader for noble women in the Duchy."
"I think we can definitely use this to our favor. Is there another reason why she is so well liked?"
"There is one more big reason. It is why she is a Marchioness with a lot of freedom. The biggest thing is that her husband, Marquess Lancaster, loves her very much.
They are childhood sweet hearts who fell in love when they were only 5 years old. They are like a fairytale story for most noble women. To naturally fall in love as kids and then learn the person you are to be engaged to is the person you already love. It is every girls dream in this cruel noble society that usually forces you to give up on the person you love to help gain more political power for your house."
Becca was also pointing at a picture in the book we had opened in front of us. The picture was of the Marquess and Marchioness smiling happily. Madam Martha and her husband both looked to be in their earlier 50's.
The scene of a happy old married couple put a smile to my face.
"Hey Becca, I hope we are like these two when we are this old. Still enjoying each others presence."
"Actually, I want to be an even better couple than them."
I was surprised for a second, but I knew Becca was the type of person who always strived for what she wanted.
"Huh, I thought you said they were every noble girls dream couple?"
"Yes, I thought so too in the past. Madam Martha is the Marquesses' only wife. However, when she got pregnant with their first child, the Marquess brought in a concubine to sleep with while his wife was pregnant.
He talked in public about how he only did it because he loves his wife so much and that he didn't want to end up hurting her or the child by sleeping with her while she was pregnant.
A lot of people ate it up, but secretly, it made me loss some respect for the Marquess. Why couldn't he just not have sex for 9 months? Madam Martha had to be pregnant for 9 months and have it take a toll on her body and in the same time, the Marquess couldn't just keep his dick in his pants?
This was one of the moments in my childhood that revealed to me that I fundamentally didn't see relationships the same way as society.
For most of my childhood, I looked up to the Marquess as the model husband. The one thing I would still praise him about now, is that he allowed his wife to continue having events and be the social circle leader after she became a mother.
Usually, husbands will force their wives to stop attending social circle events because they believe it is their duty to be looking after the children 24/7. However, Madam Martha was allowed to still hold tea parties and other events almost weekly."
"The marquess seems like the best a man could possibly be when raised in this society. Let's do our best to become an even better couple for young noble girls and boys to look up to as their ideal relationship in the future."
"Yes! I want all the noble wives to swoon over the way you treat me and then complain to their husbands that they need to do better.
Then, you can gather the noble husbands and teach them a lesson on how to treat their wives better after they start to have higher standards haha."
Becca was laughing like crazy imagining the scene that she described.
"Well, I don't care if the other noble wives swoon at me. I'll just treat you how I think you should be treated. But I'll definitely round up all the noble husbands and teach them a thing or two about what it means to be a real man. A real man has to satisfy all of their wives needs, emotionally and physically"
Becca started to blush, "good! Just remember you are not to go around satisfying other girls needs!"
"Haha of course, the only persons needs I need to satisfy is my one and only wife."