Some people, she is aware, cannot simply be told. Either consequence will continually spare them, for whatever infuriating reason, and they will always think you an over-cautious fool, or they will learn for themselves the least gentle of ways. So she does not press him further; she has done as her conscience dictates, and he will listen to her experience and observation or he won't, but she is -

she is done, she thinks, taking responsibility for the actions of men who must always know better, best.

"Madame de Cedoux. Petrana," after a short pause, "de Cedoux." None of the titles that she might have claimed; what do they matter in Thedas, torn adrift from anywhere they meant anything? La princesse was a matter of violent dispute in Lamorre, nevermind trying to wring influence out of it here. "I have been here a little while. A matter of weeks."