Mercedes smiles, "I am glad then. But I will hope you forgive me for leaving so suddenly. There was... something I had to attend to." He managed. It would be better if no one found out about that lapse of judgement.
"It would not surprise me if the Ambassador had commissioned an Englishman to build him one to keep in the Embassy grounds." He says with a grin, although he believes it to be the truth. "Perhaps I am needlessly mistrustful, but I would rather keep my head than loose it."