"You’re being ignorant and a fool. Oh, I know, you were always Gelasia’s student, not mine. I know that. But I hoped you would have absorbed a little of my discipline, if only by osmosis. Stella did." He nods to Stella, and she nods back. Stella not Stella, and her uncle with whom she shares no genetic connection. Or, no more than any human with any other, which is a lot.