She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
Chapter 13, The Nest Builders (p. 406) - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - To Green Angel Tower (1993) - Part 1