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Oh, and her comment about Wickham being incapable of "such disloyal behaviour", while the dude is there sweating, since his infidelity, a.k.a. "such disloyal behaviour" was just pointed out, is comedic gold.
Like, "Juliette had no reason to be jealous, since Wickham is loyal", says the woman that Wickham cheated on her with. Just, 10/10.
So i'm rereading this, because yes, I love the plot, sue me, and now i'm at chapter 6, and I cannot get over Nasha pitching a fit over Juliette being escorted by Sigurd.
In the first place, it was Sigurd who wanted to be her guard, so it's wrong for Nasha to say it like it's Juliette, who went out of her way to approach Sigurd.
But.
The main problem I have, is that Nasha is complaining, that Juliette, as a woman, is spending time with Sigurd, a taken man. (Sure, Marie is his lover, but they aren't engaged, altough this is the least of the problems) In the first place, Juliette is spending time with her (as far as they are concerned, blood related) brother. Who would be, in a historical european setting, a prime candidate to accompany his unmarried sister. Because new's flash, a woman needed some escort to protect her reputation, and until she got married and that escort was her husband, the next best thing is either the father, or the brother.
Like, quite literally, Sigurd, being her immidiate family, and an adult(close enough) man, is in the top 2 of best choices, even historically. Nasha has no valid reasons to object, even if Sigurd has a lover (again, not even an official partner... that's, what's more eyebrow-raising).
But the even funnier part is, that it is Nasha herself, who not only got close to an unrelated, engaged man like an annoying fly, she also seduced him and became a homewrecker.
She is falsely accusing Juliette of something, she herself has committed.
Like, I can overlook a lot of stuff with a calm heart, but it always successfully pisses me off, when someone is hypocritical. Like, fr, either don't commit the sin you accuse the other person of, or stfu.