His only niece, Dagger might have reminded him. At least, for the time being.

"Don't even start that," Dagger replied, with a obvious tone of exasperation. "She's... a princess, I can't have my daughter running around picking the pockets of nobility at social gatherings."

She shook her head lightly, as they turned across the floor in time with the music. "We'll able to explain such behavior away for a while, but someday it will stop being childish mischief, and become a serious problem." Dagger turned out, and in, in time with the draw of the violin strings. "I already see so much of him in her... but there's got to be something of me there, too..."

Wait... Did it actually sound like it bothered her? Even just a little?