"Let's be fair, Aurora," she said, testing out the woman's true name for the first time in conversation with her. "Father will want a male heir. I'm not bothered by this, it is the way of society. So I'm sure he will want to try for more children in the future."
"You certainly implied you don't care for the fact he is planning to legitimize me as his child. That does put an awful strain in our budding relationship with one another," she said in a matter of fact tone.