That gave her pause - what was the etiquette here? It being both a question of how one managed a situation where you had just kissed a gentleman in the sitting room of a relative strangers home and how this strange event could be said to have ended.

'I suppose we should probably be seen returning to the Wildsmiths?' it was very definitely a question, it was probably a good idea not to just 'go missing' incase someone put two and two together. 'We should go back, you can celebrate your having outsmarted by attempts to hide and receive all due adulation.' she added her tone not entirely filled with confidence but she felt talking out the rationale of her chain of thought the best way to explain it's merits. 'That's right?'
Isnt it?' She wasn't sure if there was a prize for this thing. Was it actually a competition or had she and Mister Daphnel just decided that it was one?

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