"What?" Rosalind did not know what to say. "Well—"
"I am eighteen." Leonardo suddenly declared. "I am not a child."
Rosalind blinked. What is going on here? She wondered.
"Leonardo!"
Their conversation was interrupted when the Count suddenly ran outside. His face was red when he arrived next to his son.
"Your Grace, please quell your anger. He does not know what he is saying." Count Caldarera said while trying to catch his breath.
"Miss Rosie is not noble," Leonardo said. "And she is not—"
"Apologize!" The Count held his son's head and pushed it down. "Now!"
"But father—"
"Your Grace, I apologize. This will not happen again. Please punish me instead of my son. He knows nothing about the world. Please punish me instead."
