An unguarded reunion（2 / 3）

heart back then!"

"I only used the privilege of a noble lady." The wheelchair-bound girl sighed, "It''s a pity that I''ve never run or jumped together with you. I didn''t even have the strength to stand up and teach them a lesson for you."

"But all the children had to listen to you. You were the queen of us all," Edith said.

"But they could never know, I listened to you." Charlene added.

The two blossoming girls giggled heartily, their hands clasped together.

The serious atmosphere just now had vanished without a trace.

Asking herself, Edith didn''t quite like the remnants of Raphael Saint-Clemont''s old-fashioned aristocratic mannerisms. However, as she had mentioned before, she didn''t harbour any stereotyped hostility against the aristocratic class.

Thus, she felt no burden in socializing with her two friends or imagining marrying into their family. Despite being aristocrats, they were good people first and foremost, and her old friends.

Edith thought to herself that she didn''t dislike Charlene''s brother either. Perhaps, when the revolutionary situation became less tense, she would pity him and give him happiness.

With this resolve, the young girl planned to bring up the possibility of this engagement with her family that very night.

However, upon returning home and seeing the figure from her dreams, all these thoughts were pushed out of her mind.

"Come sit down, Edith. Brother is honored to have invited Citizen Quenet to dinner tonight," Margot called out to her younger sister.

"Let me formally introduce: the outstanding patriot Citizen Andre Quenet, a member of our section''s military committee and the star of the Jacobin Club," Philippe said with fervent enthusiasm, gazing at the handsome and talented peer beside him.

The maiden languished at the blonde youth with her staring eyes. Completely unguarded, she encountered this familiar face up close once aga