He simply gave her an amused look at the silent treatment, and simply nodded politely to her. He turned back to the maid, and answered her question, and then turned and asked the girl one, waiting a moment and then nodding and carrying on as if she had answered. It was amusing to him, if no one else. As she stood up to leave, and coughed, his amusement vanished like summer before the first frost. "I will be in the stables at dawn. I strongly advise you be ready and down there as well, ma'am."<br/><br/>He was true to his word, and in the stables as dawn broke.