Elder Nolacula recognized that Calidora didn't want to be bound to her parents.
At least, that's what her action depicted.
It was even more so due to the strain between her and Solomon had intensified, driven by his lingering bitterness over Calidora's persistent refusal to heed his counsel, and the added challenge of Nezera consistently siding with her, pampering her.
Such a situation only served to further escalate the tension between them.
But the eerie smile on Calidora's face which she quickly concealed again grew doubts.
Elder Nolacula was quite confident that he could read Calidora's inner desire, but the act she showed earlier made him doubt his own assumption. If she's capable of putting on an act and making the people believe she is a soft-hearted princess, then what's stopping her from also doing something along the way to him?
He now believed that there was more than meets the eye.