She might have been disappointed to learn just how well he was getting along with the Chaldean lately. They were agreed, for example, on the cocky young noble upstart.
"It is not a good one. I do not know him, but I am not fond of what I have heard. I am not fond of his evident lack of tact. There is a difference, my Lady, in being bold and in being brash. Perhaps once I have met him, I will think differently."
He did not seem hopeful, but he would concede the possibility.