He put on a more serious face. "It sounds ore like they<em>abandoned</em>you, my dear... that's no way to treat a beautiful woman like you! After all... what difference might it make? If I hadn't found you, you would have been dead, for sure," he said. He didn't sound like he was planning to kidnap her, but he was trying to convince her. "Think about all the adventures we could have together! I certainly wouldn't throw you away when things got dangerous!"