"I will, then. It was." No point milling around about it. "Monsieur, I know you'll accept nothing for yourself; you're not the sort. But for your daughter-- there's something that I think must be said, and here." Here meaning Milliways, the only place where such a conversation would have any reason to happen. "I've met her here, when I was tending Bar--an entirely proper meeting , you may be sure-- and she was a bright. glad child, all happiness and talk of her future. I hear she's had her wedding, since then?"