A vivid scene with some nice description. I especially like the touch of the new dress tearing. What an awful guy!

Ah, the capriciousness of the spoiled royalty. I like that it serves, in its extreme version, as a bit of an allegory for a lot of relationships where one person is way more into it in the other. Minor point, I didn’t get the use of, “…did not look around as…” ‘Up’ or ‘at her’ might have been clearer, based on the later mention of finally looking up from the book.