Perhaps that was the point - to be certain we'd all be focused on the mystery of uncovering who killed Reverend Mother Agathe and why that we simply wouldn't have time to do what might be best elsewhere.

[A Venatori plot, perhaps. Or someone who was angry that Agathe might give anyone who didn't deserve it some latitude. Or someone frightened she wouldn't give them enough. Or, or, or-- Anything at all in the entire world is possible, she supposes. Wysteria eats another piece of cheese. Once finished with it, she has resolved herself:]

Well. She's already dead, the poor woman. Avoiding that doesn't make it less true. Yes, Seneschal, I believe you are quite right that it would be best to say something now rather than to let news come in from the street. Kirkwall will know soon, if it doesn't already. Maybe if we get all the arguing out of the way now before the new Divine is elected, we'll be better prepared to grapple with what comes next. I'm a great fan of being candid, Messere Pizzicagnolo. It can only do everyone some good when there is nothing to be done about the very basic facts of a matter.

[Just as decisively:] Have some ham.