"Hmph, such an impolite woman!"
Queen Mary slammed the silver spoon heavily onto the table, chewing vigorously on her cherry syllabub cake, only to find that even her favorite cake no longer tasted exquisite.
Her good mood from chatting with the Count of Artuwa at noon had entirely dissipated due to the visit from Madame Adelaide.
The queen muttered resentfully under her breath:
"Hmph! That old princess who can't even get married, why should she poke her nose into the affairs of France?"
Indeed, Madame Adelaide was one of the individuals she least liked in the Palace of Versailles—the former had tried to manipulate her into palace intrigue with Madame Dubarry when she first married into Versailles, making her profoundly uncomfortable.
In fact, Joseph knew that Madame Adelaide was the first person to secretly call the queen "the Austrian bitch" behind her back.
