All Small Infinities

When one has tried and failed to murder one's granddaughter's suitor, the least courtesy one can do her is to hear her side of the seduction. Therefore, when Acht sits across from Lara without preamble or introduction, it is not entirely strange that he opens with, "Tell me all that he said."

He does not think that she will play stupid and ask which person this he might be, but he is braced against the possibility.