[So much hostility toward her! Was he accusing her words with being a challenge instead of stated fact?]

It is no doing of mine!

The Lord and his Mistress here, have kept a great many secrets from all of us that have arrived! Most of what has not been mentioned, has also not been pleasant and the only way to find this out, unfortunately, has been to encounter it ourselves.

[He asked if Nepeta was safe. Not if something had happened. There is a large distinction in that.]