Euphemia. What a delightful name! It evokes the same beauty and elegance as my own! And a proper welcome, at last. You have my thanks.

[She's beaming. It doesn't last, though. Now she shakes her head, furrowing her brows.]

Oh, but I simply can't understand why anyone would prefer one of those loud contraptions to the noble grace of a well-bred horse. It's so confounding! Surely not all the citizens of this realm have such strange tastes?