It didn't help that Sapphire's room was directly above the private room, so while the dwarf duchess probably, thankfully, couldn't hear her, Caiaphas' better hearing most certainly could. He simply back an offended silence to her, before telling her, with great dignity, that she was not helping and that he certainly was not doing this on purpose. He then added, with a touch of sarcasm, that he needed as much information on her as he could get, before she became a nuisance, or worse, an enemy because he incorrectly tried to avoid her advances.<br/><br/>In the privacy of his own head, however, he was examining her, though he gave her a gracious bow from the neck, exactly as much as he would give a high noble Fae. "I am given to understand that most dwarves do not spontaneously propose such intimate actions, especially with a 'too-tall.' I was also given to understand that the parents usually handled such matters."