"Seraphina Sterling, don't just stand there silently and let my aunt do all the talking! Don't think for a second that nobody knows what you've been up to! If you're really so smart, then why have you been holed up in your room studying all this time? You even barely touched your food at the New Year's Eve dinner before rushing back to your room to hit the books! The truth is, you're not that smart at all!"
'New Year's Eve dinner? I didn't go back to study that night. I went to keep some lonely, arrogant young master company—someone who didn't even have a New Year's Eve dinner to eat! Of course, that was something Seraphina Sterling would never tell anyone!'
