That's all well and good for you, isn't it? ...I am sorry, that was unkind. But you must understand that rising up to do this "for me" will in turn rob me of something I cannot easily regain, in the eyes at court.

[She looks at him, letting the steadily strengthening scent waft over her.]

I am... neither please nor surprised. There was always going to be a cost, for taking on your mantle. This is just the most banal of them. I had thought you were aware from the start as well. I thought it was obvious. I was... I was always going to have to put in ten times the effort and pristine conduct to be a tenth as respected as you, for various reasons.