Benevenuta was right in recalling how Irene likes to see her wearing her things; it's being possessive, and half a kind of secret understanding between the two of them, with only them knowing the story behind the pendant- relatively harmless and relatively frivolous, not like her other secrets, but thrilling all the same.

"Rather a lot. So; are you spoiling me or being calculating?" she asks archly, hands on her hips and a grin on her face. "Or both, of course."