"Oh I do know you well enough for that," Cat replied. "It was simply a hope I had that now, with a wife, you might behave a little differently." Had any of the stories that she had read when she was a child been true then he would have. She wasn't silly enough to think those stories were true, and if she ever had then she had been rid of the notions after being forced into her first marriage, but she could hope that there was some small nugget somewhere in Karanteg that wanted to be thought of as better than he had acted in his younger years. There were men and women aplenty who became better people as they grew older. She wanted to see something in Karanteg that indicated he might even perhaps be that sort of man, but every day the chance seemed to grow smaller. Eventually it would disappear entirely. It only hadn't yet because she hadn't been paying close enough attention before.
Her fingers wanted to curl away from his mouth, but Cat allowed her hand to be pulled up. She even affected a smile that said she wanted such affection delivered to her. Anyone who was watching would've thought that the Lord and Lady of Seòrdag were, despite the oddities of how their marriage had come to be, a well-matched couple. Cat supposed that they looked well enough together. "Thank you, my Lord. Kelvin wished for me to ask if you would allow him to train with you while we are in Arcadie. I think he fosters the desire to be a knight." If so, it was something he hadn't ever told her.