Every time Alexandra was sure she had him cornered he would find some way out that she hadn't seen.

Dinner was torture even worse than the day spent in the Great Hall greeting the visitors. At dinner Alexandra was expected to talk to the competitors whether they were earnest, nervous or macho. Some of them vacillated from one pose to another. None of them would make any intelligent conversation with Alexandra. Apparently, they all thought that if she had ever thought about anything ...