章 179: Chapter 179

"It is always a pleasure when we can host dinner for you, mother. I already have tea prepared for you. The girls are excited to show you their talents with their instruments in the morning," Karen said as she placed a tray with tea before her mother. 

"It is not me they must impress with instruments. They are yet to find husbands and I have heard the number of suitors coming here has been low. Are you failing to prepare your daughters?" Valerie asked. 

Karen smiled, wishing her mother wouldn't scold her. It wasn't her daughter's fault that few young bachelors were interested in marriage. They could not force the men to see marriage as important.

"Mother, it is not like our days when a man knew he had to wed-"

"Nonsense," Valerie refused to hear the claim. "It reached my ears quickly that Anna had a long line of suitors. Men are looking to marry, but no men are looking to marry your daughters."