After his phone call with the German Admiral, Bruno approached Heidi and told the woman the good news. She, like Bruno, had a more common and modest sense of fashion. Though they were technically noblemen, both in Germany and now Russia, as Bruno had gained hereditary nobility in the Russian Empire after his exceptional performance on the battlefield.
Neither of them really acted that way. Their wealth was exceptional, but they lived like the working class. There were no servants in Bruno's home, his children were raised to do daily chores like any other middle-class family, and his wife did the lion's share of the cooking and cleaning around the house.
Compared to the extravagant way which Bruno had grown up in this life, this was a far more comfortable way to live out his days, and Heidi had never once complained about not living in a grand estate like Bruno had grown up in. Or for that matter, like she had.
