"Devero, then." That seems to have really caught on, people not wanting to go by their titles or simply not having any. Selene finds she rather likes that, as well as the fact that men seem to be less in control now than they did back in Rome.

But she has to shake her head at the question. "No, I have not. I have had no need of it. Would that be a problem?" She wants to assure him that she's a fast learner, but she's also not the starry-eyed child who'd believed in everything anymore.