“But with frequent intimate evening conversations, the little brother, the Tsarevich, never as

“But with frequent intimate evening conversations, the little brother, the Tsarevich, never asked an almost adult sister, the princess, about her girlish secrets. Being superbly educated, I understood that it was simply impossible to do this.  Noticing that tears sometimes glisten in his sister’s eyes, he silently hugged her, stroked her hair, kissed her cool fingers, but did not question her. I thought that some seriously wounded man must have died again in the infirmary, whom his sister devotedly and carefully looked after .. Who knows, maybe she was even a little bit in love with him and - in love? Or - he is into her, which is most likely, because it is difficult not to fall in love with such a lovely beauty as Tatiana. That would be unfair! He carefully hinted about Tatyana’s sadness to Olga or Mama, and they, not trying to find out the reasons, redoubled their attention to her. The look of the proud beauty - sister immediately warmed and glowed with gratitude. A sensitive heart and soul, Alexei was glad to see this.”

Alexei and Tatiana’s relationship while Tatiana worked as a nurse during WW1