"And what would that payment be, exactly?"
"A bride. Well probably two, unless that makes me choose sides by making the decision on which one of the the two princesses I want to marry. The elven one would seem to be the obvious choice at first glance, but I do not want to dismiss the other completely, and immediately have her father, who was extremely difficult to get to agree to consider taking peace, grow angry at me thinking that I did not consider his daughter due to any misconceptions that I might have regarding a dwarven princess."