"By all means," she said, gesturing for him to make the call. She was trying hard not to be amused at his surliness, she really was, but it was proving difficult. Maybe it was that she knew more than he was aware, or maybe it was that most of her recent memories of him involved watching him flounder in court at the hands of her protege.

Whatever the reason, she just couldn't take his ire seriously. Perhaps being dead for so long did that to a person.