He doesn't observe aloud that she is, in the moment, very much Anne's daughter. He may not need to. Either way, it certainly does not escape him.

Instead, of her last comment: "Did you imagine there was no effect at all, in the latter audience, or simply not the one you'd hoped for?" Perhaps for once, he's not arch. Even if her methods are not the ones he'd have suggested ... he does not believe (all) her points are so far wrong.

And he does not believe everyone in Orlais was so caught up in the civil war as to ignore the rest of the world completely, for all that it would be easy to miss at a remove.