After she curtsied, he nodded politely. "A pleasure to meet you as well, Miss Crawford." Hopefully he had not been too quick to make the assumption that she was unmarried. Perhaps some small part of him was simply hoping she wasn't. Though that might be seen as rude as well. Not that he wished her ill luck in life. He let go of his sudden train of thought, as it would have gotten him nowhere. "He likes chess, and other games of the mind. I wouldn't say that he is paranoid. More, set in his ways." The purist man disappointed Ace. Why couldn't that part of his family be more open-minded? He could never understand.