Illustration for Ending — The House, from the adult visual novel The Proposal

Mione says it before Malfoid can, which is the first time all story that she has spoken first about anything.

MioneThe house is yours. Not a room. Not a clause. You ran it for nine years on nothing and we have both been treating you like furniture.

CorvinaI am not going to cry at a breakfast table. I have a reputation and it is the only thing I own outright.

The table is laid for three at the head and stays that way. Nobody ever sits at the other twenty-seven chairs again.

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