She smiled at me cautiously as I looked at her. ‘My lady queen, I am dazzled,’ I ventured. ‘You flatter me as wildly as Regal does,’ she proclaimed, and hastened away down the hall, but a blush warmed her cheeks. She dresses so just to come to speak to me? She dresses so to … attract you. How could a man so astute at reading men be so ignorant of women?
