Zacharias looked at her, surprised she was giving in that easily. Even if it could be counted as a win this time around, he knew that it was honest. Marietta wasn't losing, she was conceding for the moment. And that only made him even more interested in just what she was doing. "Why wait? Let's start now."
He was after all, as she put it, a nosey arse. Zacharias never did manage to stop asking why even when it was best that he should. "So, I think that I am going to stay, see what you have that's so important you need me gone."