<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Cameron slipped his hand into hers.  "I am sorry if I hurt you with my honesty," he said quietly.  "It was not my intention."  It hadn't occurred to him until she reacted quite so submissively that his words might hurt.  "I just -- do not want to lie to you, even in something so small."<br/>
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He lifted her hand to his lips and brushed a kiss over her knuckles.  "Let us return to the Palace proper -- I suppose you must change for dinner, though I never understood the custom."  He looked down at his velvet tunic.  "Must I?  Is there some etiquette to this that I am not aware of?"  Raising an eyebrow, he drawled, "tell me Princess, what <i>is</i> the proper dress code for informing the Lord Seneschal that you are having an illicit love affair with your Queen?"</span></span>