It is not his fault that Orlesians, for the most part, set his teeth on edge. With all the masks and secrets and the like, it is nearly impossible to know who is being serious - and who is taking the proverbial piss off the side of the battlements.

Right now he's not sure what he finds more distracting, Gwen and her sleeveless, rather ... cumbersome looking gown, or the fact that her father actually seems like a bit of a heckler. "Oh? Am I about to be bored into fashionable shoes and the like? Or is this another round of 'Tweak the Templar'?"