"Yet not sufficient," she says, with a sort of brittle lightness "because I know in my life my intent has not been beyond reproach in all matters. Unless you sense the mark of Shadow upon me and are too polite to mention it?"

She doubts it. Whatever the Dark One wishes, I oppose, is a pretty stark statement. But as one in love with a force God himself Bound in the moment of his triumph, she feels like she has to ask.