章 509: Offer of Assistance

I wasn't alone in not finding something worthwhile of my coins, however, as I observed the princess getting more and more anxious by the minute. "Not this… This one is not good either… No…" She cutely began voicing her thoughts out loud due to her rapidly mounting anxiety.

While it was a rather adorable sight, I elected to intervene; "My fair princess, you seem to be greatly troubled. Maybe this humble lord could offer his assistance?"

Felicity yelped when she realized that I was speaking to her, and her embarrassment only increased in its intensity when the realization that she was accidentally speaking out loud hit her without a shred of mercy.

The head maid was ready to intervene once again, but the princess spoke up before the old woman could begin nagging me with her lessons of decorum and the like. "Umm…"

She glanced around as if trying to find the right way to go about things. "I don't want the world to hear this… Can you come closer?"