"Illyan agrees with you, I'm afraid. Or he wouldn't have let us come."

Miles declines to bring up the fact that the last words his boss said to him on his way out the door were And stay out of trouble!; as secret mission assignments go, it's somewhat lacking in grandeur. One might almost call it a secret mission admonishment.

"This could have been a lot less dull if it had been the Cetagandan emperor who'd dropped, instead of some tottering little old haut-lady."