A lady reserves the right to be overcome and faint dramatically.

"Only that they have not been inattentive with regards to our new arrivals," Deirdre answers with significantly more solemnity. "The house is not gambling, Miss Valdis; it is waiting. Already some of our new heroes such as yourself have sat the table and taken the cards dealt, and there will be no teaching them but the hard way. I can't help but feel...not responsible, exactly, but if I had been less negligent perhaps warnings may have been heeded."