I hope no one believes I’m a wealthy royal in disguise.
[ His sidelong regard takes on a conspiratorial slant -- imagine the scandal, some distant overseer sorely disappointed. Certainly eligible princes and princesses have come in stranger shapes than the tall balding backscrubber in a vest next to her. ]
I won’t hold it against him if he marries his first mate instead, provided he doesn’t leave me to tend to the rest of our party alone.
[ It must not be a very serious arrangement, then. Best laid plans of mice and dead men. She’ll see him weighing out the inevitable question when he looks to her again, gauging its importance, whether or not he wants to ask at all. Was she married? ]
no subject
[ His sidelong regard takes on a conspiratorial slant -- imagine the scandal, some distant overseer sorely disappointed. Certainly eligible princes and princesses have come in stranger shapes than the tall balding backscrubber in a vest next to her. ]
I won’t hold it against him if he marries his first mate instead, provided he doesn’t leave me to tend to the rest of our party alone.
[ It must not be a very serious arrangement, then. Best laid plans of mice and dead men. She’ll see him weighing out the inevitable question when he looks to her again, gauging its importance, whether or not he wants to ask at all. Was she married? ]