Several weeks passed like one day for Heonui. She practically did not speak; from the servants, only Mimi was allowed in, who, having barely returned to the house of King Lee Song, was immediately sent back on his orders to look after the Princess. Mimi, it is worth noting, was glad that her only duty was to care for Heonui and not the changeable and angry Queen in her mood swings. She obeyed the order to come to Heonui willingly and arrived in the first carriage, despite the incessant heavy rains.
Wang Han also tried to spend every minute free from service with Her Ladyship, and entertained her in every possible way. They often walked together, rode horses around his estate, sat for a long time in the garden reading and constantly visited the cemetery. Despite the reticence of both, they managed to spend long hours in each other's company with almost no dramatic moments, for both knew how to avoid sick conversations and not be zealous with social conversations. Therefore, their rare conversations consisted of impressions from the literature they had read or dialogues about horses, in which the Princess was sincerely interested after the first ride, on which Wang Han, almost against her will, rescued her. In the rest of the moments, both were simply silent and not ashamed of this, and therefore, spending time together was not a burden to both.
Wang Han ordered that everything that was required for Heonui's recovery be provided — for her well-being, some experienced Italian doctor was called, whose healing abilities were known far beyond the borders of Italy and who settled nearby specifically for visits to Heonui and observation of her weak health. He himself regularly went for prescribed medicines, not trusting even the closest servants, because the miracle doctor collected recipes mostly herbal, and he believed that nature was the best medicine in such a delicate matter as human grief. And his treatment consisted of numerous teas, tinctures and recommendations of the same "walk" or "ride" somewhere, which Wang Han provided in full.
Heonui more willingly agreed every day to Wang Han's proposals to "walk" or "ride" to places, and only Mimi grumblingly reminded that the Princess needed rest, not walks.
"How unwilling you are, Mimi! What is it?" Heonui asked the maid with a faint smile.
"Not at all, dear Heonui, I only care about you, Your Royal Highness. It is better for you to sleep than to be in the impenetrable thicket with His Grace, dear. And if you fall there without feeling?"
"Is it not Wang Han who carried me from the garden to bed at night? I think if I fall, then he will bring me again."
"Oh, do not tell me of those nights, oh, my poor Heonui!" A pale Mimi covered her face with her hands.
"Prepare some simple meal for when we get back, Mimi. We'll be there soon, I promise."
And Heonui left with the air of excitement, and Mimi, then, completely forgetting her requests, paced back and forth around the estate, waiting for the return of the Princess. And so she did every time the latter got out into the air in the company of Wang Han.