"That's fine with me. I sincerely doubt that you could handle me in private anyway," he said with a bit of a smirk. Certainly not if she couldn't even stand up to her mother. No, he needed something a bit rougher and there were few women out there that could truly give him what he wanted in that regards.
Standing up, he cleared his throat so his voice might carry. "Astoria, it has been a pleasure and I do hope that we can get together again soon. Dinner perhaps?" He would leave her to fill in what was happening to her mother. Zacharias had little interest in sticking around, they knew the plan and now it was just a matter of making the right rules.