For a fleeting moment he thought she was trying to politely excuse herself from the invitation, that he'd gravely misjudged the entire situation and made a fool of himself, but then sanity returned. Obviously she was being demure, she was hardly going to squeal with delight and jump up and down! Hopefully she felt that enthused in the privacy of her own mind though.
"I do strive not to be." He couldn't help but to inwardly gloat - she seemed to understand he was not a man prone to nonsense and vagaries and he appreciated that, but mostly it meant that he was making an impression on her.
"But I assure you, you would not be intruding in the slightest, quite the opposite." It would be hard for her to intrude upon an outing arranged with the sole purpose of seeing her after all.
Now that the hard part was through and he felt entirely confident that she would be taking him up on his invitation, he barely batted an eyelid at the next hurdle. "If I may be so bold perhaps you might allow me to write to you? This way I shall easily be able to pass on the details for the performance." Here was the cherry on top! Once correspondence was granted in a proper fashion there was nothing to stop them from exchanging letters beyond the subject of the opera.
"I do strive not to be." He couldn't help but to inwardly gloat - she seemed to understand he was not a man prone to nonsense and vagaries and he appreciated that, but mostly it meant that he was making an impression on her.
"But I assure you, you would not be intruding in the slightest, quite the opposite." It would be hard for her to intrude upon an outing arranged with the sole purpose of seeing her after all.
Now that the hard part was through and he felt entirely confident that she would be taking him up on his invitation, he barely batted an eyelid at the next hurdle. "If I may be so bold perhaps you might allow me to write to you? This way I shall easily be able to pass on the details for the performance." Here was the cherry on top! Once correspondence was granted in a proper fashion there was nothing to stop them from exchanging letters beyond the subject of the opera.
