Why are they arguing about this over a dead body? Why is it even a topic of conversation? The last thing Ivan wants to be doing is having a conversation about his love life in the middle of a war that had been over for nearly eighty years while he's carrying a dead Cetagandan with Byerly Vorrutyer to chuck off a cliff. There is no way he's going to admit to getting lonely to By, of all people.

"Mine and theirs, but their husbands tend to have a problem with it. Can't imagine why." He says with a shrug. "It's not like your reputation is any better." It's just a different sort of reputation. Ivan's lands solidly within the acceptable bounds of Vor Lord behavior, even if it's frowned upon. Byerly's tends to, well. Skirt around it, a little. Never to the extent of having a body end up at his feet, though. That part is new. "This won't help that, by the way."

Not that Ivan is planning on telling anyone about it, which By also knows.