Unexpectedly, Sandrino merely smiled and replied, "Adeline, I didn't think you would think of me that way."
Adeline thought that he would be angered by her words, but he didn't. Instead, he found it amusing.
Anyway, she had a greater concern. She had to find another way to discern if the man that appeared in her dreams every night was Sandrino.
Adeline took a deep breath. Grabbing tightly onto the corners of her dress, she challenged, "Well, am I wrong?"
Sandrino looked at her doll-like face, and, smiling wryly, he avoided the question, "We should go in."
Adeline sighed lightly at that. She wondered if she had stepped over the line.
Sandrino walked a few steps forward and then stopped abruptly. He turned to glance at Adeline and said, "I'll be leaving town for work tom
