I'm Bored Without Him Around

It had been three days since the rider we'd hired several times to deliver letters set off for the same place as before, this time with a different addressee.

All I'd done in the meantime was……

“Uh, um. Maria? Want to play hide-and-seek with Big Sis?”

“No. I'm bored of that now.”

“Th-then…… want me to read you a storybook?”

“I've read lots of books. I'm bored.”

……There's nothing to do.

The only thing I could do was play with Maria, but after spending every waking moment with her for three straight days, she was getting sick of me.

The fundamental reason things had come to this was……

“There's quite a lot of laundry today. I should bring in what's already hanging on the line first…….”...