Cyrus looks... unimpressed, but not surprised. The opposite, in fact. If only I could have expected better. It doesn't come through in his voice, though, which stays as polite as before.

"I think we can make her understand," he says, with a conspiratorial smile. And then a pause-- and he looks between them, eyebrows raised. "...There is no engagement planned, right? I haven't missed something?"

It's a joke, of course. You can tell, because he's laughing.