Freira was not one to assume but she cannot help it. Ambrose had been walking her home from school continuously, saying that he was just around the area and he wouldn't want to let her go alone when he definitely could accompany her. It was a fine gesture—one that would make an unmarried woman expect that there is something going on between them. But she does not want to confront him about it since she is afraid that he is merely being kind and it would make her bubble of happiness burst into sweet nothing.
Besides that, there are many eligible maidens than her that want him. Their papas and mamas like him as well according to the news spreading around town despite him being lowly and all. She heard that he has been very knowledgeable in businesses. Various conversations from the elderlie
