Rowan says back home and some small and silly instinct deep within her half-braces for one of their old arguments. This isn't that, and she knows it, so it's easy to let the feeling go as quickly as it had occurred and focus instead on what he's saying. In a way, it made an awful lot of sense--unromantic, maybe, but sensible.

"Exactly," she agrees, unsurprised but glad to find he's so readily on her side. "It's not what I might have expected, when I thought about being involved in any kind of romance, but now that it's happening...it really shouldn't matter what anyone but the four of us think about it." The promise--or threat, or both--that follows his question only makes her grin all the more broadly. "It's a talent, making that sound so gallant, even when you're dressed like that."