[The briefest little scoffing sound can be heard before he muffles it, remembering himself.]

Thwarted by her love-struck knight and her own stubbornness, rather.

[And that's one of the nicer ways he could put it.]

I was the one she was being set up to marry. And by that, I mean that the High Queen decided on this and made the veiled threat of an offer to Lady Sansa without my knowledge.