"If it wasn't for the child", he says frankly, "he would have sent her packing for Lady Lagertha's sake. But because of the child, he felt an obligation. She is... she tries to be kind, more often than not, but always with an air of knowing her place and mine."

That gets a laugh. "But she could do no such thing? Surely a great lady in her position has no call to be jealous."