"I have never seen her Ladyship act in a dishonorable manner!" His knuckles tent up on his thighs. Careful, some part of him whispers, but that part is subsumed easily by the spike of indignation in his chest. "Forgive me," he says, voice and hands starting to shake, "but I would not wish for her Ladyship to act in a such a way so contrary to what I have seen of her nature!"