Angelica and Ian had dinner as usual—which in this case was eating in his bedroom— She could not recall if he had said they would have dinner with the rest of the family after these three days.
Angelica could not believe she was thinking like this, but she would rather have dinner with everyone and not have to sit in silence trying to avoid Ian's face.
Ian had decided to keep silent during dinner. He was tired, but at the same time, he was prepared to address something very important tonight. He could see that Angelica enjoyed the silence. Well he did not enjoy silence at all.
He found silence very grim, and that was saying something considering he was close friends with the two loudest loudmouths in the entire kingdom, and whenever they were both in a room it was complete torture, but with Angelica it was different.