"In the course of my running errands for the then-Handmaiden, now-Empress, the haut Lisbet, I encountered Miles during a series of unusual events I imagine will be fully described in his report, though I will redundantly summarize them if you like. I was already more or less poised to be ejected from my constellation in favor of exogamous marriage most probably to a ghem-lord, though normally this would have waited a decade or two. This came up in conversation between myself and Miles, and I found him more appealing than an arbitrary ghem-lord or continuing to cool my heels in ornamental uselessness in a constellation apartment, and he found me more appealing than... most anything, as far as I can tell... so when he was sufficiently impressive to earn various rewards from the Cetagandan Empire, I asked Lisbet to arrange that I be one of them. She did."