One thing was for sure though, Lady Melissa wasn't going to say 'yes' to Duke Gaston's attempts at courting her, it wasn't a problem that he had, it was her, she had too many things to deal with, and she didn't want to drag him into her world of problems.
Lady Melissa was going to reject him the next time she saw him, what was the wait right? It wasn't that important for her to send him a letter about her rejecting him, he could always wait to hear the bad news.
Lady Melissa felt guilty since she was going to reject Duke Gaston, yet the man had already spent so much money on trying to court her, the flowers alone must've cost at least 1000 gold coins.
In addition to that, there were ten very heavy pieces of jewellery, five of them were emerald, and the other 3 were gold, the last 2 being silver, and the Mieth's family heirloom that was given to her.