<br/>Rowena continued throughout the meal in silence she was not in the mood to make idle conversation, but she was somewhat intrigued by what she heard others discussing.  She barely touched her soup but seamed more interested in the cheese fingers and salad, the baked salmon she only lightly pecked at and one might suspect she had done more probing at it with her fork than eating of it.<br/><br/>Rowena listened to the tales and talk of the continent try to separate the fact from fiction Rowena felt she was probably harder to fool than most other women here, she had been to such places with her Father before her aunt had intervened and brought her back to England to attempt to salvage her future as she put it. Most of what was said seamed like it was based in fact although Rowena felt a lot of it was tainted by opinion and thus perhaps easily misunderstood. Barnabas she thought would of agreed throughly with them, she wondered sometimes how he had ever come to know her father or be in his employ.<br/><br/>These thoughts helped Rowena dismiss the feelings she felt for a time although they remained there held at bay by her courage and training, Rowena had learned to confront and control her fears well only through understanding could they be banished. Turning from them she had learned only made things worse, the first time she had felt her gifts she had been terrified and for a long time she had tried to deny them.  The dimming of the lights did not help matters as they only seamed to make the atmosphere more and more suitable for such a grim occasion to occur, she wondered if she was alone in the feeling and if at all it where warranted. She glanced around the table nervously studying each person in turn looking for signs of understanding, she found herself drawn to the dark man once more in the end she was sure he knew something of this matter. She had now convinced herself that was nothing to do with his appearance there was something about him and it was rather odd that he would be here it seamed unusual, as did the brothers subservience to his wife that was certainly liable to fuel some amount of gossip.