For in that moment she viewed the flight to Olympus as he would have viewed it, and was horribly, overwhelmingly ashamed.

She could not break the silence.

She had no words to utter--no possible means at hand by which to cover her discomfiture.
It was he who spoke, in his voice a tinge of restraint.

"I was going to ask if it would bore you to come and see my sister again this evening.

I have obtained Lady Grace's permission for you to do so." She sprang to her feet.