"I was already treating this errand as quite confidential. You have that assurance; it is wholly covered by determinations I have already made."
"If you actually do know what Carissa Sevar learned, or there is a prospect of speaking to her or Keltham shortly, it would not be hard to for you to alter where I saw my path as leading me. Nor shall I be especially upset or disbelieving if it is expressed to me that you think Irori's errand can be a little more thoroughly completed by tarrying a week to answer more questions."
She hasn't tried any magic in the Black Dome, as yet, but if it's hard to learn, she wants to learn it.