"Thank you," Madison spoke as she took another drink of her tea, carefully placing the cup back to it's saucer. "My husband is rather fond of tea." Well, and of course her mother, but that was not the topic of discussion at the moment.

"Yes. Speaking of hush-hush...with all respect, especially towards the Minister, herself, I am not exactly fond of the situation...at the moment." That came out wrong. "Let be better explain myself, Mr. Stryker.

"What you and the Minister do on your own time is between the two of you," she began with another sip of her tea. "I understand that...situations being as they are...er...prove to be a little..." what would be a good vocabulary word to use at this moment? "...tough, but you do realize that you are asking me to...hide the truth." She took another sip of her tea, already not liking what her position consisted of. "To lie."