No?

[ Pity, that. ]

Ah, well. There's other places than the palace. Hell, you might do well with the army. You might even wind up in the palace; you remind me a lot of Topaz, my old assistant. Very serious, focused on her job. I always suspected she might have a wilder side, but if she did, she kept it to herself, left that to people that wanted it. And she didn't get where she was through intrigue; she did it because she was the best at what she did.