Eugh! What was this man on? Was he drunk?
Arabella was aware how all drunk people tend to act weirdly so she suspected that this was such a case but she couldn't smell any alcohol from him and could see his grin from one side that was wider though his eyes seemed somehow... upset?
Was he teasing her to hide the fact that he was feeling a little upset?
"...know each other?"
"They do look close."
"How could that be? Maybe she's a princess who had known His Highness even before us?"
"We would have known her name if that's the case!"
"Then you mean to say that they got closer after just a single night? That's impossible!"
Arabella could hear the ladies's whisper that was louder than even the meowing white cat that had once made trouble and now slowly slithered toward her feet, rubbing its neck to her ankle which momentarily took her attention.
She bent down and humphed at the cat, "Do you know what kind of trouble you had started earlier?"
