Nora had been feeling somewhat irritable lately.
Anyone with clear eyes could see that the relationship between Aske and Medea was heating up.
Of course, to say it was a relationship might be an exaggeration; in reality, they were just good friends.
Though Medea constantly teased and flirted with him, trying hard to break through this "friendship barrier" to rise into some kind of ambiguous realm of "more than friends but less than lovers," it seemed unlikely to happen in the short term.
That didn't prevent Nora from feeling a certain sense of crisis.
Occasionally, she would indulge in wild thoughts just like Peggy, thinking, wasn't I here first? Why is this happening?
But Nora was, after all, a rather pragmatic girl; she decided to take the initiative—starting with learning to cook.