Ethan straightened their bodies, then sat facing each other on the surface of the bed, watched by Keily who still looked confused by his question about love.
'She doesn't know love?' asked the doctor's heart feeling that the lady did not know about love, 'Strange, because at her age, she should know about love. Moreover, she said that Baba taught her to be wary of men, only to be touched by the man who became her husband. She should know about love.'
Slowly one of the man's hands touched the lady's right cheek, making this girl surprised to look directly at him.
"Kei, Baba taught you to be wary of men," Ethan's voice sounded, "Saying that you can only be touched by your husband. Did he say anything about love?"
Keily shook her head because it's not allowed to talk about love in the cottage. There is only affection between people. All of this is a stipulation from Maria so that the lady does not know love, or want love, even though there are shackles in her daughter's chest.
Maria already felt love, because it started with Issac, then turned to Theodore, and all of that dragged her into sadness, fear, and pain, ending her life.
"Strange," came the doctor's voice again, "If Baba can teach you to protect your honor as a virgin, then about the nature of men who have desires for women, also about only husbands being allowed to touch their wives," he said with a thoughtful face, "Why not talk about love between a man and a woman? Have all the people there ever experienced the bitterness of love, so they don't tell Kei about love so that Kei doesn't experience the bitterness of love?" he's trying to find the end of the thread why Keily is so innocent.
Keily lightly touched Ethan's arm, "Ethan."
Ethan gasped and then looked at this girl, it looked like the girl was a little surprised to be seen by him.
"Hais!" he sighed, "Kei," caressed the lady's cheek affectionately, "Don't be afraid of me. I won't pounce on you."
"Promise me."
"Promise, as long as I'm the only one with you like this."
"So you're my only friend?"
"Close friends to be exact. So you don't get hurt by a masher."
Keily gasped, then leaned forward, her two beautiful beads watching the doctor's nose very seriously.
"What are you doing, Kei?" Ethan was amazed to see what the lady was doing.
Keily raised her eyes to the doctor's, "You said a masher, right?"
"So?"
"There is a masher man? I feel that all men's noses are the same color as yours." Keily touched the tip of the man's nose with the tip of the index finger of her right hand.
Tuing, Ethan pursed his lips a little, just understanding why the lady was looking at his nose after he called a man a masher. In this lady's mind, a masher is a man who has a colorful nose, so it looks haggard.
He smacked the lady's forehead slightly where her blue eyes mingled with soft green looked amused,
"Miss," came his voice, "What I mean by a masher man who is a man who likes to bully women, not that a man's nose is colorful so it looks streaky." He said explaining what he meant to Keily.
"Men who like to play tricks on women?" asked the lady not understanding about men who bully women, "You mean like Baba who likes to secretly steal the golden plaque that locks the gate from Aunt Sinta's room? Baba's actions, said Aunt Sinta, were to outwit him.
Tuing, Ethan folded his lips again, feeling exasperated that even the lady doesn't understand what a man who likes to bully women is.
"Keily," came the man's voice, "Baba once said that a man sniffs his nose in front of a woman's neck," he said looking at the lady angrily, "But instead he kissed a woman's neck, now that's called a man bullying a woman." He added explaining the meaning of men bullying women with examples of cases. "Or it could also be that a man approaches a woman just to satisfy his desires, that's called a man bullying a woman. Got it, Keily Winata?" he added, explaining more to this lady while advancing her face with both eyes glaring exasperatedly.
Keily gasped where his face retreated, because of horror to see the doctor's eyes bulging at her.
"Understood, understood Ethan." She said nervously, "Are you a masher?" she asked the doctor a question. "Because it was about to pounce on me," she added innocently reminiscent of the incident earlier.
Tuing, Ethan gasped at this question, then looked back at the lady with exasperation.
"Keily, I'm not a philanderer. The proof is that my nose is only one color." He said innocently refusing the accusations of the lady while pointing at his nose, indicating that he is a loyal man because his nose has only one color, which is white. Because the lady said earlier that a masher is a man with a colorful nose.
Keily grinned when he saw Ethan getting excited, spontaneously her hands stuck to the surface of the doctor's face, she was rubbed on that side. The doctor just sighed.
'Hais,' he sighed, 'Why did I get stranded to the hut, then meet a village girl untouched by modernization?' he complained regretting being stranded at the hut so he met this innocent lady, 'My God, why did I fall in love with this is the girl?' he complained again regret falling in love with the lady.
Keily saw Ethan's face looking regretful for something, removed both her hands,
"Ethan, do you regret knowing me?" she asked suddenly because she felt that the young master regretted knowing her who did not understand human life outside the hut.
Ethan gasped in surprise at this question, then felt guilty already regretting knowing the lady.
"Sorry Ethan, I'm the stupid girl from the golden cage."
Ethan's heartfelt shocked hearing the lady's words gently rubbed the beautiful innocent face of this innocent lady, it seemed that his eyes were filled with guilt. It reminded him of the girl who had saved his life, asking nothing in return until now. The lady thanked him because she was willing to fulfill Baba's message.
The man's other hand slowly took the girl's head, leaned against his chest, spoke softly to the lady,
"Kei, you are a smart woman because Baba told me, Aunt Sinta gave you any kind of education for you." Came the doctor's voice, "Just inexperienced living outside your cabin." He added, "You calm down, I have no regrets knowing you. I am grateful to know you because you saved my life."
Keily looked up at the doctor who was also looking at her.
"Really?"
Ethan nodded his head, "Sure." He voiced again, "I took a shower and changed clothes. After that, we went for a walk to the shopping center. I see you are wearing the clothes that Baba brought in your travel bag." Diverted the conversation, "Hey, Gandy why haven't you brought everything you need yet? Does he want me to fire him? He knows Kei is my woman, why doesn't he prepare everything Kei needs?" he scolded his assistant.
Hey, sir doctor, you just gave the instructions last night, of course, it hasn't been done because all the shops in Jakarta are closed.
"You," Keily pinched the doctor's nose a little, "Gandy is a good assistant, don't be fierce to him. Besides, you just told him to prepare this last night, my way, of course, he's only done it today." she reprimanded Ethan's arrogant attitude that all his orders must be quickly carried out by his subordinates.
Ethan flinched at the rebuke, then sighed. Only Issac and Theodore had dared to rebuke him all along. These two men kept a low profile, educating their children and wives to respect workers. However, Laura doesn't like Issac's upbringing, so she often takes the workers for granted. Even if someone objected, Ethan's mother did not hesitate to give punishments such as being beaten with rattan, sometimes whipped, until sent to the afterlife.
"Thanks, Kei." Came Ethan's voice, "I'm going to fix myself." He said he accepted Keily's reprimand, because the lady had a sincere heart, and he had good common sense.
Keily nodded her head, "Go take a shower, you smell sour." Released from the doctor's embrace.
Ethan nodded his head, then got out of bed, immediately into the bathroom. There is hot water in a bathtub, toiletries, and kimonos available. He sighed, feeling something was missing, then spoke loudly,
"Keily!"
Keily in the room where she sat on the edge of the bed waiting for the doctor to finish taking a shower heard the man's voice.
"Yes Ethan!" she said aloud.
"Come here!"
"Where to?"
"To the bathroom, Keily!"
Keily then complied with the doctor's request, she went to the bathroom, then looked at the man who approached her while giving her a kimono.
"What do you mean, Ethan?" the lady doesn't understand.
"Change into your kimono," said the doctor, "then bathe me."
Keily heard this dumbfounded, then exclaimed in annoyance,
"Ethan! You're fine, take a shower yourself!"
She also tore the kimono on the doctor's body, but it was returned to her. She changed the kimono again to the doctor, and once again it was returned to her by the man.
"Ethan!" Keily became irritated with this young master's attitude, "You are not a baby or a child!" she said still refusing to bathe the spoiled master. "I'm not a babysitter either!"
"Of course." The man replied in a relaxed voice, "I already said that you are my assistant, so you have to wash me every day. I just want you to wash me, because that's what you did for us at the hut, right?" he said explaining why he still asked to be bathed by the lady.
Keily clenched one hand about to hit the man, his face looked exasperated,
"You're spoiled, huh?"
"Indeed it to you."
"As for the others?"
"Only to my mother." Ethan replied calmly, "Come on my assistant, do your job. Pampering me is good because I will give you anything, including my body and soul." He said unconsciously slowly expressing his heart that loves Keily.
Keily smiled at this "You speak the truth, Ethan?"
"Very true. What do you want right now?"
Keily smiled again, then pinched one of the doctor's arms.
"Kei!" came the young master's shriek, "You want to pinch me?" he asked feeling Keily pinch him because that was what the girl wanted.
Keily smiled amused hearing this, then ran away from the doctor.
"Hey, she ran away from me!" Ethan became exasperated seeing this, "Watch out for you, I'll catch you!" he immediately chased after the lady who ran into the room, "Keily!" he cried now trying to catch the girl who nimbly avoided him, "Hais, this girl! Watch out, caught, I kiss you!" he became more and more exasperated because the girl was flirting agilely.
"Wee!" Keily pouted the doctor's teasing lips, "They say your nose is the same color, why would you want to kiss me? That means you have a runny nose!" she said mockingly the young master is a masher.
"Hey, dare to make fun of me, huh!" Ethan was getting more and more exasperated, "My nose is only one color because I'm only for you, not for the others!" he cried once again subconsciously expressing his heart that loves the lady.
"Crap!" cried the lady with laughter, again pouting the lips of this young doctor.
Meanwhile, outside the room, Gandy and Sida were still waiting for this couple. Then came Samuel and Manuel, who approached the two loyal assistants.
"Gandy!" his brother Ethan's voice called out to Gandy.
Hearing the man's voice, the two assistants immediately turned their eyes towards the man, then hurriedly bowed slightly on the spot, greeting the first young master.
"Gandy." Samuel's voice sounded again when he looked at Gandy, "I heard Ethan is back here." He said opening the conversation, "Where is he? What's in his room?" pointed at the door of the room behind Gandy and Sida, "Then why is there Sida? Isn't she in charge of managing the arts?" he added feeling strange there Sida.
"I, first young master," came Gandy's voice, "Master Ethan has indeed returned to this pavilion. He's in his room." Given the answers to all of Samuel's questions, "Sida was asked by Mr. Ethan to take care of Miss. Keily." he added.
"Miss. Keily?"
"Yes, sir, the lady who saved him after the accident."
"I see, so the lady's name is Keily." Samuel understood, "Fine, I'll find Ethan." He said he decided to meet his younger brother who was very worried because he disappeared more than a week after the accident, but one hand Gandy stretched out towards him, "Gandy?" he wondered why the assistant prevented him from meeting the younger brother in that room.
The assistant was about to answer, but from inside the room came the voices of Ethan and Keily joking.
"Ethan! Ah! You cheat!"
"Whatever! Come on, bathe me!"
"No!"
"Then I'll kiss you, okay."
"Ah! Ethan, you naughty!"
Samuel heard this and was surprised, then looked at Gandy, because this was the first time in his life he had heard of Ethan bringing a woman to his younger brother's room, then joking intimately with the woman. Who is the lucky woman to get that from his brother?