While other young girls were having fun, she was sewing.
While other young girls were picking flowers, she was cooking.
While other young girls were in love, she was crying.
"You will have to serve your husband" they said.
"You must do this to bring honour to the Hederváry Family"
"You will marry Mr. Roderich Edelstein"
It seemed like a sad fairytale. She was always treated like a princess, but she never dreamed of such a sad ending like this. In those fairytales her nun used to tell her before bedtime, princesses were always rescued by their prince charming and lived "Happily ever after" with the man they loved. But her story wouldn't end like that; she was going to marry Mr. Roderich Edelstein of Austria just for the sake of her family. She was going to marry someone she didn't even know, just to bring honour to her household. Were all those fairytales, only beautiful lies?
As the only heiress of the Hederváry fortune, she had to marry a gentleman in a very good position and her parents had already made the necessary arrangements to make that happen. She started to believe that the arrangement was made even before she could walk. Why did they wait so long to tell her that it was pointless for her to fall in love?
These were only some of the questions she used to ask herself since her parents told her about her fiancée. They had told her that she was the handsome son of a rich gentleman and that he was indeed a very skilled musician. Eliszabeta had not met him before, but she was hoping it wasn't true. Although she liked music and fancy stuff, she hoped him to be a carefree, stubborn and funny happy man…like her friend Gilbert!