"Just act normal, if you feel uncomfortable - you can always hold my hands anytime"
What Charles suggested had already made Victoria's eyes widen. She couldn't just hold his hand and for the most part - she wasn't even the original Victoria who would eventually cling to his arms like that.
For goodness' sake - she wanted to move on from doing that! She thought so she doesn't even have any choice but to heave a sigh secretly, as she closed her eyes. It took her a great number of seconds to even look at Charles in the way that she would distinguish herself as a new Victoria. It's because she already knew that the original Victoria - had already ascended above - or who knows where her soul was. However, for her - if she's already reincarnated in the novel then all she has to do was to do the right things in life