Maria nodded with a light smile a blush covering her smooth cheeks. "You are quite right but I quite enjoy the fact you still live in a place that time is not so far ahead" she said the words floating from her lips as if they were a dream she spoke of. A waiter took a few unused dishes away a quickly and replaced there food. "So am I to assume there is a shortage of woman here who are what you are looking for?" she said a teasing smile on her lips. He was wealthy man he could have wanted any woman in the area but yet he chose a foreign woman a woman he only wrote letters too for 6 months. This man feared of being used like all men he had a reason he wasn't willing to tell for fear of his pride faltering. But this man before her was blunt and sincere and she liked the qualities they reminded her of herself.