Reading The Rules

"What? You do know that brodalisques are not allowed to go outside without his majesty's permission, right? You made the whole palace go into a big mess. Everyone was looking for you even the emperor. Where did you go and how did you even manage to go out?" When Helena asked this to Magnus, he silently lowered his gaze and kept remembering how Martin took him to see his father some hours ago and took him back to the royal palace when he realized how late it was.

He could not answer her questions because he did not know what to say especially because Martin kept asking him to not tell anyone about the fact that he took him to see his father and keep it a secret.