He couldn’t help it, it was just too authentically Evangeline – the comment about convention made him grin. It was nice to know she hadn’t changed in every way – they were both older and less naive; perhaps more bitter – but she was obviously still as firmly determined as she ever had been.
And he let out a breath, a slight huff of laughter, when she didn’t make too much fun of his absurdity in wanting her approval. His smile turned a little more thoughtful when she brought up the prospect in reverse. If she was still enough like her old self, he thought it probable that he would like anyone she chose for herself – her late husband, whom of course she had not, had not been the sort of man he would have ever wished on her even with what little he had known of him. (He had never quite forgiven her family for forcing her into such an arrangement to begin with, though he knew he had been partly to blame for the circumstance.)
“Well, I’d be pleased to meet him,” and offer my opinion, Elias said, light and half-joking. It was that joking tone and a teasingly-raised-eyebrow that allowed him to blatantly overstep anew – although, he reminded himself, she had brought up Daff first, so really it was fair game. “...I don’t suppose there’s anyone particular on the cards yet?” She had been a widow for some years, after all, and so hopefully freer to do as she chose.
And he let out a breath, a slight huff of laughter, when she didn’t make too much fun of his absurdity in wanting her approval. His smile turned a little more thoughtful when she brought up the prospect in reverse. If she was still enough like her old self, he thought it probable that he would like anyone she chose for herself – her late husband, whom of course she had not, had not been the sort of man he would have ever wished on her even with what little he had known of him. (He had never quite forgiven her family for forcing her into such an arrangement to begin with, though he knew he had been partly to blame for the circumstance.)
“Well, I’d be pleased to meet him,” and offer my opinion, Elias said, light and half-joking. It was that joking tone and a teasingly-raised-eyebrow that allowed him to blatantly overstep anew – although, he reminded himself, she had brought up Daff first, so really it was fair game. “...I don’t suppose there’s anyone particular on the cards yet?” She had been a widow for some years, after all, and so hopefully freer to do as she chose.
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