[It's really quite incredible how quickly the atmosphere has changed. Dorian smiles, and now only moments from when he was trying to stave off discomfort, he's starting to laugh.]

I can't say I have, though if he is a wonderful fellow I don't think I would mind doing so. Speak good things about me to him, will you? [He manages, after all the chuckling subsides.] Now, Anora is someone I know enough. If I'm not mistaken, she was queen of the the country I fled to. I met her in a bar and told her she wouldn't hold her liquor.