Penny's ears like her eyes are sharp and she hears Dante refer to her as childish as Thomas ask should he pursue her.
Strangely this causes her to pause because the thought of a boy her age interested in her in any way is Foreign to her.
The palaces she spent her time in since losing her father an mother weren't coed and before that her dreams of gymnastics and training elicited no such thoughts as romance.

[B]"How interesting that my present presentation of personality would be thought of as childish. Well I suppose it could be perceived as such. Not so bad though because so many misjudge the grasp of reality children often show"[/B] she says to herself as she adjusts her uniform trying to find some way to make the canvas material more comfortable