Whatever he made of her list, he kept it to himself. She could feel the heat from her own embarrassment and thought for a moment he might have noticed too but if he did he kept that to himself as well.
"Six sisters." she offered rather than devote much thought to whether she could recall his siblings. His assessment of his mother was… generous, after a fashion. It was not the way things were usually framed but Thistle had to admit - he had a point. Statistically speaking, with five of seven daughters married and settled, her mother was doing quite well. With the dance card still burning a hole in her pocket part of her wondered if he patronizing her by offering his own unmarried siblings as comparison. She watched him closely for a moment and eventually concluded that if he was, she did not care. It would be a small and petty way to win a conversation.
"And with you being no help." she clucked in a tenuous step back towards banter.
"Six sisters." she offered rather than devote much thought to whether she could recall his siblings. His assessment of his mother was… generous, after a fashion. It was not the way things were usually framed but Thistle had to admit - he had a point. Statistically speaking, with five of seven daughters married and settled, her mother was doing quite well. With the dance card still burning a hole in her pocket part of her wondered if he patronizing her by offering his own unmarried siblings as comparison. She watched him closely for a moment and eventually concluded that if he was, she did not care. It would be a small and petty way to win a conversation.
"And with you being no help." she clucked in a tenuous step back towards banter.
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