Don Juan looked up, surprised by the question. He didn't interact with children generally. None of his siblings had any, and none of his friends considered it a good idea to have him around theirs. The sorts of places he tended to spend his time certainly didn't tend to cater towards children. He especially didn't deal with young children, and if she was asking if he remembered her like they'd met sometime before, she would have had to have been quite young at the time.

"What?" he asked, which was to say no. Where would he have spoken to a girl her age before? Maybe some kind of event. Public affair, something in Padmore Park before it had collapsed in on itself? The Sanditon? She certainly hadn't made a lasting impression on him, that was sure. Depending on where and when they'd interacted, he might not even have been sober at the time — maybe he hadn't remembered her ten minutes later.

Wait — had a child been writing him letters?

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