"Are there many people looking at us?" Joanna asked as they walked down the corridor, which was answered with "none" by Canillas.
However, the fact that could not be seen by Joanna, who still had her face buried in her husband's neck, was that there were already four servants who had just run into them but quickly fled away with their heads lowered, and some covered their mouths with their hands after they did not forget to offer their polite bow.
He did not mean to lie to her, but after some consideration, he felt that he had to, as he knew her nature very well, and he wanted to ease her. Yet it seemed that his wife knew him very well too, as she said, "Just tell me the truth." Her breath tickled against his skin as the words slipped out of her lips.
"If you don't trust me, why don't you raise your head and look ahead to find out yourself?" Canillas countered, and he chuckled when Joanna replied to him with, "Said someone who made me unable to do that."
