"Where did you come from?"
"Are the Fletchers part of the Drummonds?"
"Why have I never heard of you before?"
Eliza couldn't stop bombarding Arthur with questions, ignoring everyone else at the table. Anyone could see her curiosity about him, her eyes sparkling like two pearls.
Arthur didn't sense any malice in Eliza's questions. On the contrary, she was making her personal interest in him very clear, rather than trying to find a connection between him, and especially Aria, with Emilio's death.
So, he tried to answer her questions with as much honesty as possible without revealing his family's secrets, resulting in rather vague responses. Yet, Eliza received everything he said with an excited smile.
The new girl is on the cover of the novel, but she is using an illusion spell in this chapter.