"Actually," she murmured for his ears alone, "I just wanted you to spend the day with me because I wanted you to spend the day with me." She just couldn't say it quite like that. It was a little too hard just to come out and admit that she wanted him to be around. And she didn't know why that was. When she got close to that realisation, it made her nervous and she wanted to turn that off.

Except feelings did not work that way.

"Don't make it sound like the most horrible thing in existence," because she was pretty sure he'd define that as spending the day with Byrne. "I'm a woman of my word. I said I'd do whatever it was you wanted me to do and I still intend to uphold that. I'm honourable, after all, and you're not just anyone."