"Too bad you weren't around here before. We could have used more of that," Lambert chuckles, with little rancor. It's not something to be sore about, really, it's just a fact. If everyone had been much better at sneaking around or sticking to the rules -- really, just sticking to the rules -- they wouldn't have gotten caught, they wouldn't have disappeared and reappeared, apparently in the service of the Prince to boot.

"Is that how you got here? Sneaking in?"