[Cuckoldry was a wildly popular topic in storytelling for centuries. It is not that he believes Haise to be a dishonorable young man who would aim to sway Olivia's heart away from him: these circumstances are so strange to his cultural sensibilities that he cannot help but be perturbed. Such cares, however, are allayed by his offer.]

This would indeed be to my liking, Haise. Among the Achaeans such techniques are for sport, when men wish to test their strength one against the other in friendly competition - yet while it seems strange to me that one should enter single combat in this manner, I can offer my skills thus. So too should I like to see how fast-dancing Olivia fares.

[He had seen how fiercely strikes her fighting spirit when they had battled the beast in the swamp, yet still he must strain to imagine her lithe dancer's limbs purposing to wrestle.]