To see what I would say,' Lymond said and smiling, destroyed all his own...

To see what I would say,' Lymond said and smiling, destroyed all his own controls as they looked at him. 'She had no intention of going. But if you hadn't come in, who knows what she would have learned? Who knows what I should have learned? There is no end, is there,' he said to Sybilla, 'to the dues you demand from your children?'
'You have all the weapons,' Sybilla said. Her voice, even yet, was quite steady. But then, she had been prepared for this also.
'You don't know what weapons I have,' he said teasingly.