Duke Landier

"This ..." said a slightly sinister-looking Marquis Ignatius, "Lestat is indeed wrong, but considering his young age and susceptibility to confusion, Lord Imad would do well to persuade him again. It is not good for either of us to strike, no matter who is hurt. Marquis Tangoulas, don't you think?"

The other vampire, known as the Marquis Tangoulas, was much more direct, looking gruffly at Lestat, "Are you going to give Duke Landier a hard time at this juncture?"

"This is a personal matter for me, not my mother." Lestat's eyes flickered slightly, but his mouth said, without the slightest hint of compromise.

"You are Duke Landier's son, and your actions have everything to do with her!" Aunt Daisy suddenly said, looking only at Lestat and not at Alice.

Alice's heart chilled slightly and she simply stopped thinking about it, just being an ostrich, curled up in Lestat's arms, as if nothing in the outside world had anything to do with her.