“You, Arabessa, are the most interesting creature I have yet met as well as the most contrary. It’s thoroughly enjoyable to watch you smile but know that you’re actually quite outraged. Or see you paste on an expression of indifference when nothing but the sweetest scent of joy lifts from you. You see”—he leaned forward conspiratorially—“you may not share your thoughts, but feel them you certainly do, and loudly.”
