Leonardo Durant, the eldest son of the Marquis du Durant's family, is four years older than Aurelio. When she first entered Arnold, Leonardo Durant had just graduated. But the other party was a popular figure in the public school before, at least in the year she first entered the school, the other party's name was always mentioned in her ears, and even she was addicted to learning at that time and couldn't extricate herself from this name. After all, the name "Leonardo Durant" is not only often mentioned by students, but also by teachers from time to time during lectures.

Agnes doesn't really understand why Leonardo Durant has graduated, and the teachers and classmates still love to talk about each other. She asked Penny, who had a good relationship with her, to which she replied:

"A gentleman like Leonardo, with a wealth of knowledge, a strong leadership and an extraordinary family, will inevitably be a star in Fenepot's politics in the future."

So Agnes understood, and the focus was on "the stars of future Fenepot's politics".

The communication between the Marquis Durant's family and the Earl Paganey family has suddenly become more this year, and before, although the two families were not cold, they were not very eager. But this year's increase in exchanges is actually not surprising, Marquis Durant, like his father, is a representative of the new aristocratic faction, and under the special situation of this year, it is almost inevitable that there will be more exchanges between members of the new aristocratic faction.

As far as Agnes knows, her mother has attended many balls or dinners hosted by Marquise Durant in the past six months, and Marquise Durant has also attended many balls or banquets held by her mother, and it has become commonplace for the two families to invite each other this year.

However, Agnes did not appear in the social scenes of Fenerport City very often, if not very rarely, after all, she spent a third of her time in the church for half a year, and she was not very keen on socializing the rest of the time.

Although Agnes only started attending proms and dinners at the beginning of this year, in fact, she is still early in adulthood and has not officially entered the social circle of Fenerport City, after all, she will not turn 14 in 2 months.

She can only recognize the Marquis Durant family when they meet, but this is still due to her good memory. In fact, all the nobles of Fenerport City, she could recognize them when she saw them, after all, she had memorized them.

Although Agnes didn't expect Leonardo Durant to come and invite her to dance, she wasn't surprised. After all, today is Mrs. Durant's ball, and as the eldest son of the Durant family, when she sees the embarrassing situation that she is not invited, she naturally chooses to invite her out of politeness to avoid having a bad impression of this dance.

Agnes and Leonardo Durant enter the dance floor together.

Agnes noticed that Leonardo had slowed down slightly, allowing Agnes to walk onto the dance floor first, before guiding Agnes to dance where Agnes had stopped.

Agnes felt Leonardo's right hand not rest on her waist, but with the palm down, gently holding her with the back of her thumb; Leonardo's left hand gently supported his right hand, not very high, although not graceful to the shoulder-level, but this height was more comfortable for Agnes, so that Agnes did not feel like she was being hung up. After all, Agnes's height was only about to reach Leonardo's shoulders, and this was the result of wearing high heels today.

Agnes sighed silently in her heart, she was embarrassed to play such a gentleman.

"You are the daughter of Count Pagni, the sister of Aurelio?" Leonardo asked quietly.

Agnes nodded, deliberately lowered her voice and said, "Well, Agnes Pagni." Hello, nice to meet you, Mr. Durant. ”

Leonardo showed a smile and said, "Actually, you can call me Leonardo, I have a good relationship with Aurelio." I'm also a graduate of Arnold College, so I'm your senior. ”

Agnes smiled and nodded, "Okay, Leonardo-senpai. ”

Leonardo replied with a smile.

"You don't seem to be at prom very often."

Agnes nodded and said seriously, "After all, I'm still young and not yet an adult. ”

Leonardo couldn't help but smile a less reserved, and quickly retracted it, resuming that graceful and calm smile, extremely quickly, but Agnes was sure she saw it.

"And what do you usually do at home? You graduated from public school more than two years ago, isn't it boring to stay at home every day? Leonardo asked.

Agnes was stunned for a moment, the news that she graduated from public school at the age of 11 was so widely spread?

However, Leonardo knew that it was not surprising, after all, he also graduated from Arnold College. If you really have a good relationship with Aurelio, and still keep a lot of attention to the public school, it's not strange to know this.

"It's not boring," Agnes explained, earnestly, "I'm going to learn music, and I'm going to think." ”

"What are you thinking?"

"I think about the world." Agnes said with a small smile.

"Thinking about the world?" Leonardo laughed and asked, "Did you think about anything that came to a conclusion?" ”

Agnes smiled visibly at Leonardo and said, "We can never really know the world. ”

"When I face the sun, I close my eyes, I feel warmth, and I begin to think of many fiery things."

"But when I opened my eyes and saw the sun, I found that everything I was thinking about was gone, the sun was just the sun, not anything I had been thinking about before."

"When I touch the earth, I think of the bountiful harvest of autumn and the food that fills my stomach."

"I tried to bite the earth, but the earth is not something to bite."

"Then I realized that almost everything I was thinking about was not itself, because I didn't fully understand what I was thinking."

"Just as the sun is not the fiery thing I think of, so the earth is not the abundant harvest I think of."

"We can't really know what we're touching, we can only speculate about the whole picture of a thing from what we know. Just like a blind man touching an elephant and looking at a leopard through a small hole, we who know only part of the thing can only speculate from what we know, and we often cannot reach the right conclusion. ”

"The blind man touches the elephant and looks at the leopard through the hole, I have heard these two words, which are from the quotations of Rousaille the Great." Leonardo, who had been listening to Agnes' words in silence, finally found an opportunity to interject, still maintaining an elegant and calm smile, and did not seem to be embarrassed at all.

Agnes couldn't help but smile a little.