Square you need to streamline the main story

[Berethos]

Mission accomplished. Look at how much that cut out.

All of that in the middle is padding.

You cut out the part where you actually attempted to ascertain the perfumed lady's identity (which means the part in bold where it mentions doing that doesn't work). Also the part where you roused her suspicion. Good job. All that also maybe takes 10 minutes, 15 at most to get through. Be still my beating heart at the thought of losing so little time.

Look, part of story telling is setting mood and tone - it's not just recounting a series of events that logically follow one another.

The intent there is to clearly create an air of mystery as to whether or not this is the correct person, as well as add a bit to the character's backstory (that she is generally well loved by those who meet her). All that stuff you cut is designed to do that, to help set a specific tone and mood in that particular section of the story.

Without it, it's a bland "We must find this person...oh okay, here she is, let's go home."