In the lobby, they find, not Benin, but Mia Maz, in funeral garb and keeping Vorob'yev company. She looks very chipper for the early hour. She will be, she says, accompanying Ambassador Vorob'yev. Who asked her to marry him the prior evening. She said yes, she reports cheerily. "Still. Lady Vorob'yev. How did your mother cope, Lord Vorkosigan?"