A gesture, and Maillol no longer hears them.
"The Queen has in fact submitted a report on your adventure."
"It is not a priority for you to do anything about this, Sevar, especially not today, but be it known to you. Loyalty to myself and my purpose and my office is acceptable. Attachment to the point that you then blunder into Keltham's room being visibly distressed about a woman you should hardly know, without having preplanned your story, is weakness, not terribly Asmodean, and not something I think we should be inculcating in the new Lawful Evil."
"The Queen suggested that this problem should be fixed by having you torture me to death once per day for a few weeks, and while I believe she had ulterior motives in this suggestion it was not entirely inappropriate as a solution ignoring its costs."