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Now for some more info on Chapter 4, Scene 2. It's 26 pages total so I'm going to have to do this in segments. My apologies:


 * In the month since Caspar's death, little has changed at the Blankenheim manor; graden's still good, although there are less (no?) servants.


 * Hanne rang the door bell and Margarita quickly answered, since she's now the only person living there aymore. Hanne is so struck by her beautiful face that she inadverdantly blurts out "It's doll-like."


 * Margarita's face brightened at this comment and was smiling innocently; Hanne thinks she might've thought she was praise (she's probably thinking how to kill you for that Elluka......).


 * Hanne introduces herself and apologizes for her rudeness at the funeral but Margarita is confused and doesn't seem to remember her; all the same, she welcomed Hanne inside.


 * Narration says she explained that she wanted to come by and work on an article "In rememberance of the deceased Caspar" and Margarita agreed to it willingly.


 * When Hanne and Margarita entered her room, it's really plain; has nothing save for a red carpet on the floor, a bookshelf with what books she put in, and a bed and sofa.


 * Hanne remarks it seems like a lonely room and Margarita gave her a "masochistic" (self-hurting) smile. She said she originally had a lot more variety of things in the room but quickly sold it all. Her favorite tableware too. Spoon(s) and glasse(s) and (I think) even her mirror(s). She liked them "but they were only cosmetics".


 * Hanne figures Caspar sold them for his antics, even after getting his social standing back. She asks if Margarita's angry and the girl questions why she'd say that. As Hanne starts with "Because---" Margarita cuts her off and says she wouldn't be angry, because it made Caspar happy "so I'm fine".


 * Hanne figures it's a waste of time trying to understand Margarita's feelings as she'll refute it all anyhow. So she moves onto asking about Caspar ("or rather, the Blankenheim family") falling on financial troubles.


 * Without hesitation, Margarita immediately replied while smiling: "That seemed to be the case. It didn't seem so recently, however."


 * Margarita clarifies that he'd said he had started a new business and Hanne asks for details. Margarita apologizes and says she doesn't know. When it comes to his work, she tried not to pry too much.


 * Even if she knew, Hanne didn't expect Margarita to speak honestly about the business (assuming it was something darker behind the scenes). But to Hanne, she didn't seem to be lying.


 * Hanne asks if she knew about anything/anyone involved with Caspar's work and Margarita suggested she ask "Elluka" since she was his business partner.


 * Hanne's a bit taken aback as, if Elluka does know about Caspar's shadiness, she expected her to try to hide the relationship between these people.


 * Hanne points out that the name Elluka Clockworker, the "Mage of Eternity", has appeared everywhere throughout history. Margarita doesn't seemed bugged by this.


 * Margarita: "Oh, is that so? I'm sorry, I didn't know her famous identity. The only thing I heard from her mouth was that she was a mage."


 * Hanne: "Were you not on the best of terms with her?"


 * Margrita: "Not at all. For me, she's a....... precious, precious friend." (muttered)


 * Hanne: "You don't know the identity of your best friend?"


 * Margarita: "It's precisely because we're best friends." And she goes onto say something to the effect of her not knowing who she was shouldn't affect them being best friends (as a question to Hanne).


 * Hanne's a bit off-put by that and (I think) Margarita's wondering if she's not interested and asks if the reporter can teach her a bit about Elluka. So Hanne goes through her contributing to the resolution of the Venomania and Conchita incidents of the old times, and how she was part of the Three Heroes.


 * Margarita: "Oh! Even I know of the Three Heroes." And Margarita goes through their history. "I didn't know Elluka was in it."


 * Margarita kind of wonders about this and is puzzled because, "it's odd" that the Three Heroes were active over a century ago, but the Elluka she knows isn't an old lady (grandmother) like that.


 * Hanne makes a (hesitant) comment about people not suppose to be living that long and mentions it becoming a belief that the name "Elluka" is handed down to a competent mage from generation to generation.


 * Margarita is impressed ("wow") by the implication that her Elluka is actually a mage worth of such a name (and chuckles, very impressed). Hanne has a very serious look that Margarita notices, and she tries to cover it up and say it's nothing.


 * This is where the narration on the Lioness Burning Incident occurs. Same stuff I've already said. Castle north of the town started spreading a fire down; 200 people dead; entire town burned; Hanne was Dashaw's attendant. He saved her, she watched him burn. Elluka was the name some of the surviving residents said did it.


 * Margarita asks if she's all right and Hanne remains silent. She then snaps back and apologizes for being lost in thought. She then asks where Ms. Elluka is now.


 * Margarita says that "come to think of it", she hasn't seen her recently, not even at the funeral. She then gives it an "oh well" and says she always has something to do and randomly pops in and out.


 * Hanne asks if she doesn't live in-town and Margarita says she thinks she comes from somewhere far away. Caspar was always saying "Thanks a lot for coming all this way" (遠路はるばる、 お疲れ様), but she didn't know where she was from.


 * When Hanne asks when she last came, Margarita thinks back and believes it was August 25, which Hanne recognizes as about a week before Caspar died. If she were to believe everything Margarita said, then this Elluka couldn't have been directly involved in the incident.