I have called you a fool many times, though it was not as a person. Only that you believed in foolish ideals. It has occurred to me more than once that such is an important distinction to make. You are not a fool at all.

[Keeping her eye on him, she simply takes him in curiously.]

Optimistic, but not a fool.

[For some moments, she considers that he's wise enough to know not to provoke her fury. Normally, she'd threaten him. Remind him that if he spoke her secrets, of the things she kept so close to her, she'd simply cut him down. For whatever reason, this particular time, this particular moment, she decides not to.]

Now, it would seem that I must think of you as honourable as well.