"I wasn't always." Phryne settled back with her champagne in raised hand and the other resting on her thigh. "An Honorable Miss, used to finer things, or clever and observant."

She had never expected to the money or position, nor wanted it, but she'd not deny she had no intention of going back to poverty now. But that, she suspected was of no particular interest to Vax'ildan.

"I lost someone."