Of that I have no doubt, [ she answers sharply, ] for if that is your view of women I wonder you'd been able to find a willing mistress, had you wanted one.

[ but it's clear he hasn't, from the tone of his voice, and that is what makes her own anger dull into blunt annoyance. ]

You made an assumption, ser, based on nothing but the fact that I am a woman and your friend is a man. That means you believed that he would not seek my company for other reasons than lying with me. [ perhaps once, she'd have been too shy to speak of it like this, but that shyness has long since died. ]

Which, in turn, was an insult to me, my intelligence, my mind. Like all I could offer was my body. [ she all but spits out the word. ] And yet... you spoke of rhetoric, that my words were eloquently expressed. So it seems you don't think I'm unintelligent. [ there's a very clear underlying question there: do you? ]