_{[Careful to frame it lightly like a passing thought, Anders voices a hypothetical.]}

Is she that dead set against you? I'll wager she married the king--the previous king--to put on a good face for the people. A unified front and all that. What if you became king and did the same and brought together your two families? You could be in the company of a beautiful woman all the time. Would that be so bad?

_{[Hypothetically.]}