"It doesn't sound terribly boring, really. The import and export part alone sounds fascinating." Depending on what they were bringing in and taking out, she hoped they had a good lawyer on hand. Dark magical items at this point and time, they would need one. And she had a feeling with the way Stephen mentioned that his family collected things over the years that it wasn't all properly legal things.
Daphne almost sighed, but she could hear her mother berating her silently in her head. Sit up straight, don't slouch and if you sigh, Daphne, so help me! But Stephen was right. She was getting married and what she wanted didn't matter anymore. It never really had. No one cared if she were a smart wife, with a career and life of her own. No, she was bred properly and she was pretty and that was going to carry her through the rest of their lives. Not her life. Theirs.
"I suppose it doesn't really matter? I don't mean that to be disparaging in any way. But we are getting married in a weeks time and dwelling on what my could-have-beens are... It's not a good way to start things off? I would rather not hold a grudge against you for things that I cannot have, so best to let them go now." It was a little more wordy than to the point, which he mother would have preferred, but there. Let it go. Don't start the rest of your future on the wrong foot.