Flavia stood still, looking at the other girl with slow-gathering, incredulous resentment and wonder.
Did you ever know a man to come here without being interested in me, Flavia Rose?
Yet even he did not understand, for he had not dared to lift his eyes to the Princess Flavia, as I had lifted mine.
The sentence broke as she saw the man beside Flavia, her gray eyes widened in astonished interest.
Flavia dropped a caressing arm around her brother's shoulders, gently drawing him to face the field.
