"Lady Alethea! Your beauty might recall a man from the City of Poets itself," he said with a bow which somewhat lacked its usual flourish. "It is a long while since last I am seeing you." He smiled. "Your youngest is married just now, yes? I wish her many children and more happiness."
He had been most interested in the absence of Lady Alethea from the court of late. Polonius was busy with his own games, Sandro did not doubt, but the lions were running unchecked and it had begun to grate that not one of the Councilors could be bothered to speak sense.