"I remain as long as Claudia wishes to remain. I am at her whim, as I always have been. She adores you, so I have no doubts that I will linger." At her statement, Louis felt a queer kind of embarrassment, still human enough that speaking of such in public about someone he loved made him uncomfortable. He answered, however, "I shall speak and reveal as she pleases. I do have my own accommodation, yet if she wishes me to stay and you agree, I will remain at her side."
"I hold no questions for you not to linger within my household and rest within her bedchambers. I believe she would not mind if you were to slumber within her bedchambers in the same manner," she mused, her eyes flickering over his features. "Why did you linger away from her company, Louis?"