“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.”
“What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.”
“How nice for you that you don’t have to.”
“Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.”

— Ellen Kushner, book The Privilege of the Sword

“Just so.”
Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392)
The Privilege of the Sword (2006)

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