If you are so close to the Countess, Canach, you do not have to withhold the information. I understand it must be difficult for you. [He lets that hang in the air for a moment, knowing he must chooses his words carefully to some extent. It would not do him well to further annoy him, especially with the information he has.]

I am not stringing a web of lies to Syrlya. I am avoiding revealing to him what occurred, and I am avoiding it with good reason. Do not think I am peace with it. The fact it is for the better makes it no less difficult, but it is a fact none-the-less.