Despite the cheerfulness she'd experienced, the atmosphere felt heavy as she let the realization sink into the man standing opposite her. Did his expression convey what she had hoped he would think? "They wouldn't give me a date." She said, glad that he picked up on the fact that she would be leaving and not coming back. Her parents would set her up for courting in Singapore and that would be that. She would be allowed to visit on occasions but her primary residence would be thousands of miles away.

"They said it would be soon, but that the topic was," She took a breath here. "Very enthusiastically received by my relatives." Her brows furrowed. She knew she'd near failed at her seasons so far; she had little room to protest as vehemently as she would like.