She even inflicted humiliation on Dia, who was slow to learn.

She cornered Dia like that. In the end, Dia blatantly avoided Baroness Rose, who had approached her first.

The offended Baroness Rose informed her close noble ladies of this fact, and Dia’s reputation plummeted.

‘Come to think of it, quite a few problems started from this person, didn’t they?’

It seemed that just by dealing with Anna, several headache-inducing incidents could be prevented at once.

With that sense of mission, Deborah carefully examined each document, one by one. However, after thoroughly reviewing all the documents, she rather fell into deep contemplation.

‘Ah, what should I do?’

Usually, people think that if someone knows the future, they will achieve great things.

For example, preventing a major war, saving someone who is going to die, achieving great business success, or forming early connections with someone who will be in the spotlight later.

But Deborah, who knew the future, felt that she couldn’t do such great things even if her life depended on it. Of course, she had been well aware of her limitations from the start, but looking at these application documents made it even more certain.

‘Who on earth should I choose?’

The future Deborah knew was limited only to Dia. Even if there was someone among the tutors who applied to the Baker family who would achieve great success later, Deborah had no way of knowing.

Therefore, Deborah had to choose a good person solely based on her own ability, but.

‘There’s no one as excellent as Anna Franklin.’

All the candidates are excellent. To the extent that one could imagine how much salary Zen Baker must have promised.

But among these outstanding candidates, Anna Franklin stood out exceptionally. Her alma mater, her experience working in noble households, and the connections she would have gained from it. Everything was a level above the others.

‘This must be why Zen chose Anna.’

What to do. Deborah pressed her throbbing head.

How could she hire someone other than Anna?

‘I have to convince Zen. Convince him…….’

Twirling her pen needlessly, Deborah recalled her conversation with Zen from earlier.

‘He said to pick a few for face-to-face interviews.’

He said he wouldn’t even do face-to-face interviews if he didn’t like them, but at least none of the people here were so inadequate that he would cut them off immediately.

So what if she made up a reason? A reason why someone other than Anna should be chosen.

Deborah pondered for a moment and soon came up with one reason.

While she wasn’t absolutely certain that ‘This is it!’, she felt she could make a plausible argument with this level of reasoning.

‘It’s better than just sitting and watching Anna get chosen.’

Deborah looked over the resumes again. They all had similar levels of ability. As if anticipating this, the applicants had written down special self-promotions that could highlight themselves.

‘Gardening, someone who wrote a cooking column for the Dale newspaper for 6 months. A member of the Dibard Art Association? Oh, this is quite impressive.’

After examining each one, Deborah finally selected a few resumes she wanted.

And in her mind, she had a mock conversation with Zen. She didn’t want to make mistakes. But the imaginary Zen was so eloquent. As expected, he didn’t readily agree.

And the real Zen was the same.

“On what criteria did you choose these?”

Zen said, looking over the resumes Deborah had selected while sitting at the desk in his office.

His sharp eyes looked up at Deborah standing in front of him.

Deborah, who had fully anticipated Zen’s reaction, answered with a subtle smile.

“Of course, I chose excellent people.”

“Excellent people, you say. The only one that stands out among these is Anna Franklin at best.”

Zen twitched one eyebrow.

Deborah answered without losing her seriousness and calmness.

“Certainly, Ms. Franklin’s experience was impressive. But I couldn’t ignore the strengths of the others either.”

“Strengths? Piano, violin, writing, embroidery, social dancing…… Are you talking about these?”

“Yes.”

Deborah answered cheerfully. Zen, who had been staring at Deborah’s face with surprised eyes like a trapped prey, belatedly continued.

“I know these are basic accomplishments for women in social circles. But is there a need to learn them specifically from a tutor? It seems much better to learn from experts in each field.”

“Well, I thought about that method too, but I felt this way would be more efficient.”

“Wouldn’t it be more efficient to learn from experts as soon as possible?”

Zen said, raising one corner of his mouth.

Deborah nodded and replied.

“Generally, that would be true, but Countess Blaise’s situation is unique.”

“In what way?”

“Learning new subjects from strangers is more nerve-wracking than one might think, and moreover, Countess Blaise is moving her residence to the Baker mansion, isn’t she? So she won’t have much mental leeway. It will be difficult for her to get used to this place to begin with.”

Even Deborah, who could sleep well anywhere, felt uneasy when looking at high ceilings, let alone Dia.

Deborah continued calmly, not avoiding the golden eyes that were staring intently at her.

“Anxiety reduces the efficiency of education. It’s like continuously pouring water into a small glass trying to hold a lot of water, so why not start by increasing the size of the glass first?”

Slowly, step by step……. These words would be unbearably frustrating to Zen, who dreamed of revenge, but Deborah believed that a preparation period was necessary before one could run.

So even if this was a trick devised to eliminate Anna, it wasn’t just a superficially plausible method.

“So if you hire just one tutor with excellent cultural accomplishments, I think Countess Blaise will acquire not only knowledge but also basic culture while adapting to life here. Relatively peacefully.”

Zen tightly closed his mouth and stared up at Deborah.

‘I felt it last time too, but…….’

Looking up at Deborah like this made the face of eighteen-year-old Deborah come to mind more vividly.

‘It’s also a skill to remain this consistent after going through such hardships.’

Deborah, not knowing what Zen was thinking, carefully guessed his answer.

‘Isn’t this too soft? Are you really thinking of her as a child? he might sneer.

If so, I should answer, ‘Just for now. Once Countess Blaise becomes accustomed to life here and masters basic culture, I will immediately request to hire the best educators in each field.’

However, Zen’s following question was different from what Deborah had expected.

“Then why did you include Anna Franklin as a candidate? This person isn’t skilled in the miscellaneous skills you consider important.”

‘Miscellaneous skills.’

To express such excellent talents like that. Deborah felt a bitter taste in her mouth, but nevertheless answered with a pleasant smile.

“Even so, she has excellent experience. Enough to catch your eye, Mr. Baker.”

Zen crossed his arms and tilted his head slightly. Faced with his attitude that clearly showed dissatisfaction, Deborah slowly blinked her eyes.

‘Hmm, does he think it’s right to choose Anna Franklin after all?’

Honestly, if Deborah didn’t know the future, she would have chosen Anna too. Frankly, in the face of Anna’s clear talent, Deborah’s proposal was only a second-best option.

‘Rationally speaking, it would be better to learn basic academics and etiquette deeply from Anna first. But Anna just won’t do!’

Knowing the future alone was a very lonely thing. Because she had to fight alone like this.

Anyway, Deborah was thinking of finding another way if Zen didn’t listen to her opinion.

‘If I rack my brains and worry, something will come up.’

But Zen’s answer was quite unexpected.

“So you included her to gauge my reaction.”

At this response that sounded like a mutter to himself, Deborah just blinked her eyes.

“Anyway, fine. I’m sufficiently convinced by your strange opinion…….”

Zen said mockingly as he crumpled Anna’s resume like trash. Then, throwing the rest of the resumes on the desk, he said,

“Let’s interview these people.”