“I can tell you for a fact that there are people who don’t like the station that they’re born into.” He wasn’t keen on talking about what it was like to be poor, but he figures that it was something worth pointing out. “Even I’ve wondered about what it would be like to be king of somewhere.”

It’s not biting or sarcastic as he points it out, but conversational. He gets the impression that she’s not entirely at ease with him watching her so closely, so he divided his attention between her and the hearth of the tavern. The last thing he wants to do is make her uncomfortable and the other hand seems to have done that on some level. As he’s always pleasantly surprised by him being friendly.