"I cannot imagine why she should find offense." He's a bad person. "Unless she is more a ... settled person than I believed? Though our meeting was, I fear, very brief. You remember Alex, ne? He introduced her to me as another member of the Italian march on Margate."
Iago shrugs a little, helplessly. "I didn't mind it much, save that my daughter ribbed me mercilessly and Xellos found it an affront to very nature. So ... ah ... it could have been better?"