He looks back at her after a moment. He doesn't know what it is about her that makes him want to take all this trouble, but he does, and he isn't questioning it too closely. While she has some superficial characteristics that Mitchell could, sometime, point out were not unlike Daisy, Ilde is so intensely not Daisy in every way it matters that it would honestly never occur to Ivan without prompting.

He offers a small smile. "You thought I had maids in to do this sort of thing?"