I think the thing I like most about this is that aside from the broad likelihood that Prince Cecil and Bertia are going to end up together, I have no idea where it’s going. At every turn, she focuses on something that’s supposed to work out some way according to the game, then he tries to arrange things so that they’re at least superficially like they’re “supposed to be,” but they never really are, because in her version of how things are supposed to be, he ends up rejecting her, and already there’s no way he’s going to do that.

And thinking about it, it’s sort of as if he’s playing a previously unknown route in the game, and she hasn’t realized it. He’s going through the same checkpoints, but doing enough things differently enough that he’s raising entirely different flags.