Year of the Boar, Tenth Month, Day 25.

I have not had time to order my thoughts; I reread what I had written yesterday and I know that I have omitted detail and not made much sense even to myself but I have been too busy to sit and take the time to compose anything sensible although I feel it is important to note something down so that I at least have some sort of record of events.
I do not know what to make of things; I am not often lost for words but I just do not know what Rani is about. Perhaps Yuika's paranoia is rubbing off on me; perhaps yesterday's talk of intelligence has made me read too much into the situation but I am really starting to question the reason for this "diplomatic tour". When I believed Rani to be a young woman, becoming used to the demands of her royal birthright, I thought little of it but now that I have met her and discoverd that she is in fact, an extremely astute woman of middle years, I have to wonder why she has waited until now... I have scoured the library for more information to see if I could find any evidence that this is the way of the Sixth, or perhaps that things have changed and that this is the way they wish to do things now... but I found absolutely nothing. Most frustrating is the fact that I cannot ask Rani herself without giving her reason to look at me more closely than she already appears to have done... and I can hardly ask Yuika who would have no idea even were she speaking to me; which she is not..
To add to my concern about our visiting princess (and I must add that I have even paused to wonder if she is who she says she is - it is hardly as if we keep portraits of foreign dignitaries in our libraries), Yuika created havoc yesterday. Why she could not just present herself in the Hall and offer Rani some tea which would be the polite thing to do regardless of who the visitor was, I cannot imagine. Instead, she chose to throw a tantrum the likes of which I had yet to see. Her screams could be heard through the entire House and I was glad that I had chosen to wear make up when I went to meet with Rani for breakfast because my cheeks must have been purple with the shame I felt.
To her credit, Rani simply continued with her breakfast murmuring quietly that she would visit Yuika once she had had a chance to enjoy the gardens.
I will continue this later ... I actually feel the need to lie down and calm myself for a while...