"It'll be a few weeks yet." The angle and size discrepancy makes it much easier to just pull Candice up rather than lean down to kiss her, which has the pleasing side effect of resulting in the both of them on the library table.

(This is why Ewar hates interrupting either of them if he doesn't know for sure the other one is on the other side of the castle.)

"After that, maybe Elenia. The estate isn't there any more - I sold it, and I burned it when we passed through maybe two years ago - but Demos. The motherhouse...maybe not the motherhouse. Vardenais. Maybe I'll scare the devil out of a few old friends."

In disguise. What a nice man Candice is marrying.