Korva is failing to imagine what a person who is both an Iomedan and an employee of Archduke Narikopolus could possibly be like. It sounds terrifying. He is probably not allowed to murder her without warning her first. She identifies him based on the fact that he's visibly an Iomedan priest and is following Archduke Narikopolus around, which makes him completely impossible to approach, such that she kind of intends to just give up. But then he goes up to the gallery, and she doesn't have nearly as much of an excuse.
She follows him up, after taking a minute to work up her nerve.
"Excuse me," she says, as levelly as she can. "Korva Tallandria. Rights, education, and family committees. The Duchess de Chelam suggested that I speak to you about contract terms that it might be wise to ban, particularly promises of unbounded obedience. It's not urgent, at least on the scale of things that happen here." Really she suggested that she specifically talk to him about marriage, but she doesn't know if she wants to lead with that.