Tehr smiled, and knowing that he did not look his best, in fact, probably looked downright dreadful considering he was calling on another noble house, made the best of the situation.  "Good morning Matron Astari d'Saari," he said with a broad genuine smile on his face.  "Thank you for seeing me with no prior notice.  Forgive my appearance, I've come straight from the palace and have not had time to stop at my manor house and freshen up.  I pray you'll forgive my shoddy look when you hear my news."<br/><br/>He followed the matron who was a little more than a figure head into the home and accepted the offer of tea, but only on the condition that they hurry, time was of the essence.  "Maybe you should call your daughters, Marie, Jesanie, and um...."  Tehr paused as he realized he never caught the name of the third daughter.  Abashed he admitted that fact.  Then he would proceed to tell the Matron the news of the Ball the previous night.  Regardless of if the daughters came or not, he would not spend too much time in this house.  He had too much to do today.  But he would inform them that they needed to be at court first thing this morning with their proposal to the queen for the royal control of the ports.  He also warned to be ready, that if house Dale lost the ports, they should expect backlash of some sort.<br/><br/>Then he would stay for a short while and see if any of the daughters or the matron needed his attention, and promised he would make sure his mother sent along contracts for the mining consortium very soon.  Then, unless there was anything else to be done here, it was back to the carriage to eat his breakfast that Tera had packed, down to the butcher Ironna's shop to 'buy some meat' and check in on Liam, then home finally.