It's ... unsettling, though she only recognizes the cause some moments after feeling it. To watch someone else watching her, not to catch her in a lie -- or, worse, a truth that doesn't meet with their approval -- but to read what she wants from him. She's been in this equation many times, but never on this side of it.

She is almost sure, almost certain, that even in his desire for her approval he isn't lying to her now.

He may catch the slightly longer breath than necessary before she speaks again. "Thank you, Lord Osborne, for answering my questions. I have just one more I would like to put to you, if you will bear with me a little longer."