Augustus didn't answer her question. He grew increasingly uncomfortable. She got the impression that she was being shielded again. It was a maddening, infuriating feeling. Did everyone think that she was so weak and sensitive that she would just break at the first sign of any stress? She couldn't understand why everything was so different. There was a time when Augustus didn't treat her that way. And, there were years when her husband didn't try to protect her from the dangers of the scary world. Had she really changed that much? She hated how she was treated.