Step 2: Ascertain His Attraction

Unlike step 1, where you must be proactive and take every opportunity to act, step 2 entails patience and passivity. You must be observant, taking the time to watch your handsome knight carefully (which you're probably doing to the dashing man anyway, seeing as you've got to be a bit obsessed with him by now).

After completing step 1, it is time to evaluate your efforts thus far in order to discover if your amorous antics have yielded any results, and determine if indeed your handsome knight is interested in asking you to bed. Proceeding any further in this venture depends wholly on the success of step 1. You must watch your quarry for symptoms of lovesickness/sheer burning lust directed towards you.

Symptoms may include:

1. Telling you that you're the only friend he's got

NB. Preferably when you're alone, like at night-time in a quiet woods somewhere, like, say, the Perilous Lands.

2. Falling on top of you

3. Telling you that you have pretty eyes

4. Telling you that you pull adorable faces

5. Pulling you closer when you tuck him into bed

NB. If you got him drunk, you should have no problem with making 2, 3, 4 and 5 happen.

6. Flicking his hair/showing off/generally being provocative whilst training when he knows you're watching

7. Kissing you better when you fall over a chair

NB. He may laugh at the fact that you fell over a chair first.

8. Asking you to kiss him better when he suffers an injury

9. Hugging you in a stable

10. Getting jealous when you go to see sixty-year-old healers

11. Asking you to share his horse with him when ours throws his shoe and you're quite happy just to walk

12. Grabbing you and telling you to come to bed when you stay up late

13. Making suggestive comments when you are making a bunch of mistletoe in front of him

14. Comforting you when you are upset in the middle of the night by cuddling you in his bed

WARNING: IF, and ONLY if, your handsome knight shows a range of these symptoms may you proceed to step 3. Advancing any further when he isn't interested will be at best embarrassing, and at worse, dangerous. He does have an impressively big sword after all. (Which you should know, if you've been polishing it.)