He gave Eva a guileless grin. "Dear, I am a field commander, I get told things as I need to know them. That probably would have been about two seconds before I actually sat down for dinner and started talking to your parents. Which would have been... mildly unpleasant for me, though I doubt anyone else would have noticed."<br/><br/>He looked up as someone else entered, but it was simply one of the servants. They were a few minutes early, so he wasn't worried yet.