@Vofuro It's because the Marquess would still have to attend social functions. There no real excuse for a noble woman disappearing for 7 months other than expecting without accusations of impropriety.
I'm sorry, how is it her fault when that last line was a biggest fucking unspoken yes that I've seen? Male and female communications may have been fucked since antiquity, but it's not her fault that this brainlet of a man has zero sympathetic intelligence.
@JavelinJoe
As far as I know, the author wants to catch up the Ln to the WN before he continues the story. He was probably suffering from writer's block.