Are you still assuming that his promises of a peerage were actually followed through and he wasn't just doing his usual thing of lying to women to get what he wants from them?
'Oh yes, Nadine, of course when all of this is over, I'll make sure that you receive your due. Now, this party enquiry, just making sure you're still going to say that I did absolutely nothing wrong, aren't you? What? You didn't get one? I definitely put your name on the list, I don't know how that could have happened, must have been somebody who doesn't appreciate your loyalty in all things. It'll all be sorted out, just let's get through the enquiry business first and then I shall venture unto the breach, my dearest, most loyal Valkyrie (witters off into Cod Latin with the occasional Nordic sounding mumble). No, no, my dearest darling Hardy to my Nelson, of course there's a peerage, I think I'll even put you forward for Penny Wotsit's job, you'll be great at that sword wanging when it's needed again, much better than she was, we shall have our restitution, our Day of Reckoning just once we've got through this tawdry little enquiry thing and you shall ride as Boudicca into the Other Place - don't forget now, I wasn't there, was I, and I definitely wasn't fiddling, whether with a fiddler or just whilst Rome was in flagrante, as it is were?'