"Okay," Christien replied, pretending to sound dismissive, looking highly amused with all of this. Of course, nothing about the way he'd acted would have been a problem, since he was joking. But what was about to happen meant that it wouldn't look that way and certainly wouldn't do him any favours. A maid knocked, then entered. She was young, probably about eighteen or nineteen. She didn't see Christien at first, and proceeded into the room so as to ready it for when guests went to bed. Christien cleared his throat and said (obviously, the whole conversation was in French), "Excuse me? I'm in here right now."