Rinaldo tries to hide a grin at Eanos comments on the way out. Once they are both outside the castle, where Rinaldo is sure no one would eavesdrop.
"If you think I wanted to seduce her, I will tell you that I have a wife and three young children. No, I wanted to speak to her without so many person to hear. The people there would have found suspect that a merchant come and suddenly, can have a private audience with the mayor, and I think I would have been able to have one if I had presented the coin they gave us.
By the way, thanks for your intervention. It was well place. It would have been too suspect for me to ask more about the Inn. I think anyone who knows nothing about the events will think I am an ambitious merchant, maybe a bit too much. For someone who knows will have doubt, but nothing firm. So from now on, stay more alert."