Despite Maroon's coarse language, Elise understood where he came from. Ian's mother, who she had learned her name to be Lucy had suffered unjustly from her husband's disloyalty. "How was the person you loved, Mr. Maroon?" She paused, seeing Maroon's dull eyes seemed to flicker and added, "I'm sorry, I asked Ian about it."
"It's nothing to be apologized for, milady," Maroon answered and he appeared not to be shaken seemingly knew that sooner Elise would question about this. "It's only right for you to be curious of who are working under you. Instead I agree with what you do and I think it's your first right step as the Lady of White House."
Elise shook her head, telling him, "I still think that I should have asked you first, some times question such as this could be intrusive."