[Hm... Ethlyn considers what to say and how much to say. She doesn't want to throw Marianne into an abyss of awkwardness. But Marianne might be a noblewoman herself--she has the manners of one.]

I was the daughter of a duke. [She's about to add that she was princess of Leonster by marriage, and her husband was its heir, but stops. It's... not as easy to talk about Quan in the past tense as it is herself. Especially when she doesn't know for sure if he is in the past tense.] So I learned how to fight with a sword, and how to be a healer on the battlefield so that I could support my older brother when he had to lead our family's troops in battle.