The way he wouldn't look at her, Corbie knew that wasting time by asking questions about how he was would only be an insult. Mildmay's speech may be slow, but his mind wasn't. If you were dumb enough to forget that, sometimes you'd find that he was three steps ahead of you in the conversation.

So she didn't try to beat around the bush. But she wasn't sure where to start.

"Who was that woman?" She didn't mean Kolkhis.