[Ari/Aspel]
I am certain you would know better than I; I have no qualm with her except that she has poor manners. I am not always above sympathy for someone having a hard time, but open antagonism does not tend to breed sympathetic feelings.
[.....] Be that as it may, I will entertain her, and her ilk, and then I will entertain myself and consider my fee well-earned for having to smile to their contemptuous faces for three hours.