" ... What do you expect me to do with my heart which I have now made to become vulnerable to only you!?"
The last line of Briceus' concluding words continued to resound inside Elizabeth's head for longer than a minute in fact!
She just could not do away with the fact that the King had actually just said those words to her neither the fact that she had actually just heard him mutter those and in a singular tone of emphasis.
Elizabeth stayed amidst her musings.
'Pray! I certainly did not hear him say those words to me just now. More like a confession of some kind? This man who is a king is vulnerable to me? Me? Elizabeth? For say, I did not just hear that indeed.
'My god! Did that person just admit to being vulnerable to me like his heart was actually now vulnerable to me? Was this not what both Oletha and Mira were intending to lay claims to, much earlier?
'Certainly not!
