Staring down at her, Robert was quite shocked by the lovely looking face staring up at him. There was a peculiar innocence about her as well as something he just did not know. There was a mystery about her that the other young ladies did not possess. Perhaps it was her mannerisms or perhaps it was because she wa snot another match suggested by his family, either way he found her quite appealing.
He was quite taken aback by her words, but he did not reach for her as she moved away, instead he just straightened himself up. At no point did he understand what he had done to upset her. "I apologise if I have done anything improper to offend you, Miss Black," he murmured calmly examining her pretty face. "I only intended to walk beside you until you were at a place where you were safe and were no longer lost."