<div align="center"><strong>Shawn Albert Pierce (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=83967.msg3706742#msg3706742) - Gallery Main Lobby |Speaking with Aline and Matilda</strong></div><br/>How could she help him? Always the proper business woman and always with her eye on the prize. Age and wisdom might go hand-in-hand for most but there were certainly exceptions, as Miss Aline certainly proved. After their first brief exchange, and Shawn’s slow send into disappointment, something caught his ear and what he heard was delightful.<br/><br/>“Matilda,” He chirped quietly to himself as those minor details about the woman he’d had spark him were shared. No skills? Anyone could learn. She, this Matilda, certainly did seem to have a way about her, nice was a proper word for it. Then, those next words brought the smile back to Shawn’s face; Aline was, indeed, very -wise especially in the manners of keeping her customers happy and keeping to spending their money in her gallery.<br/><br/>“As a friend.” Shawn lightly nodded his head and that smile turned into a gentle smirk. It could not have been a couple seconds after this little bit of vague business that the beauty returned, the girl who caught the glimpse of his corner-eye and her name was Matilda. Heh, she was cute as well. Good to apologize for a tardy, as a business man himself that was a quality one wanted in their employees, however being on-time was much better.<br/><br/><em>"Is there anything I can help you with Sir?"</em><br/><br/>Shawn stood there and looked into her eyes with his own, his mind filling with the site before him; Matilda certainly could help him and as he nodded, he took the cane from under his right arm then moved it to his left as he offered a proper handshake to the woman (to which would quickly turn into a small kiss on the back of her hand). “You certainly can,” He said with a hint of coyness though played it up to Aline, “Your employer says your name is Matilda, which is a perfect name for such a face.” He took a small pause. “I am Shawn Pierce, but Shawn is perfectly fine,. and we have been.... discussing something you could help with, yes.” Someone else had arrived in the mean time but, to be frank, Shawn's attentions where firmly elsewhere.