Esmeralda swallowed her saliva every second until there was no more to swallow. Her heart began palpitating in fear as a series of questions kept going in and out of her head. 'Could he have recognised me?'
'Of course, no. No one will, even my mother could not. This bloody hat does well to hide my hair well. No woman would ever dare wear an attire like this to a grand party, no one would think of me as the princess,' she kept telling herself to calm down. However, those thoughts of hers flew out the window of her mind as he stopped on a corner of the entrance of the hall.