"I doubt you're missing much beyond backdoor politics." Said by a man with little patience for such. For one, it made it rather difficult to document history when Barrayar had oral traditions and favored using social events to political advantage. But that's not why either of them are here though he thinks that if she were to remove the blood, she would be dressed well enough to attend any function she cared for.

And while she continues to speak, he continues to search, this time entering in her final words as a term and-- "The British Empire no longer exists." Because that brought up results. Several and all of which had long since shown that Empire's fall.