"Grudgingly indeed. I suppose I have never forgiven your maker for having the indecency to embrace common swine like yourself," she drawled and laughed, a chilly, but not unpleasant sound. "And I have never quite forgiven you for the vulgar things you did during our chance encounter in the Rhineland. No one else has ever dared to so much as show me disrespect, and yet you were so bold as to make love to me like a common whore." The fact that she hadn't seriously injured him indicated that either she hadn't minded so much, or that her surprise and curiosity had outweighed her indignation.