[she did think they were past the time where 'the boys' thought she couldn't handle herself. ...This probably isn't the best time to mention that Peony's saved her life here at least once.]

If you choose to live here, you should do it without such constraints.

[her voice is a little bit harder. She's thirty...four-ish and a governor, for Lorelei's sake.] His Majesty knows how to behave himself, and to be quite honest with you Saphir, I do not appreciate the implication that I might not be capable of dealing with him if he did not.