"You mean you didn't tell him?" Handy asked incredulously. "Oh, go on and tell the foreign gypsy spy you're secretly an emotion sucking fae-horse, get cosy while you're at it, no big deal! Help him get away from a pissed off colonial authority, that’s nothing. But shock and horror, dare to tell him you're in the service of one particular changeling overlord or another? Oh no, that's beyond the pale."