The Professor was indeed astonished, astonished that Heinrich herself had ordered the move and even more so now that she was helping. Lady Heinrich, you have my apologies. he said calming down considerably and taking care to speak in the politest possible tone and using his most formal Rheinlandic to carefully construct his sentences I beg leave to ask, where are we going and why? My research, which you so graciously allowed me to work on, is very nearly finished, I was not aware your ladyship remembered that I was here. But, if I might be so bold as to ask, what has happened? While I appreciate your concern, I must insist you take care of your own first, especially the children.
He worried that recent diplomatic changes made him a target or worse, an enemy. His name, as he understood it, suddenly became far more powerful in the realm of Bretonia, something he detested but it was a fact none the less. Now he worried that something may have happened that he would ultimately be responsible for.