"I understand that my ability to work comfortably as a member of the Queenscourt is not favourable evidence about my character, but more direct evidence is available. On practical grounds, my free cooperation is a more effective resource than my constrained assistance. In most respects you appear to be the sort of person I want in charge of the Queenscourt and therefore the sort of person I would freely cooperate with. But rather than being interested in determining whether you can trust my free cooperation and then asking for it, you appear to instead be interested in convincing me to willingly agree to be your tool of conquest rather than the Queen's."