"Very clever. My approach was always terribly straightforward. Likely an exercise in futility, all told, but I would have been remiss to say nothing at all. Never mind that it's hardly in my nature to remain silent."

There's a small shrug there that says she's not terribly sorry in that regard.

"But Cullen's wise to my ways by now. I've only been hounding him to look after himself since he was in smallclothes."