She had enough self-awareness to acknowledge that the English-man’s lack of savoir-faire was matched only by her own. The difference was that Blackfinch, bewilderingly, rarely seemed to cause upset. Indeed, he was positively well liked. His awkwardness and innate ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time only seemed to endear him to others, whereas her own forthright manner had left her alienated and mistrusted.
