The Patrician was alerted to the impending danger when he heard the sound of a wailing infant approaching the Oblong Office.
A minute later, Lord Saul Ramkin-Vimes came in, clutching a red, desperately unhappy and sobbing baby girl.
"Hello Havelock!" Saul greeted Vetinari.[1]
"Hello Sir Saul, what brings you and Little Samantha here?" There was a hint in Vetinari's voice of 'especially when she is screaming to bring down the Oblong Office and is turning an alarming shade of scarlet.'
"Oh with Sam gone, I figured this would be a good chance to bring Little Sam by to meet and spend the day with her godsfather."
Vetinari was, for the first time in several years, a little surprised. "I…. see. You think that is appropriate with her…the way she is?" He had to raise his voice to say the last thing as somehow, Little Sam's wails got even louder.
"Oh she'll be fine. She just misses her Mummy, since she's been gone in Borogravia."
Vetinari was about to say something to the effect of him being far to busy to spend an indefinite amount of time with his godsdaughter but stopped at the look in Saul Ramkin-Vimes' eye.
It was the look of a kind, gentle, patient man. It was the look of a man who missed his wife terribly, and was only slightly less upset than his daughter that she had already been gone a month, and missed things like Little Sam's first tooth starting to come in and her hair becoming more thick. It was the look of a man who needed a small break and thought it would be good for his daughter to meet her godsfather, who had sent her mother away into a warzone.
Vetinari silently acquiesced and took Little Sam from Saul's arms. Even the Patrician knew when he had been beaten.
"Oh good! I'm so glad you can take her Havelock. I will be back in a few hours; there are some repairs to those assassin traps Sam set up that I promised her I'd do while she was away."
Then he was gone, and Vetinari was left alone with a crying baby, and feeling a bit at a loss for the first time in a very long time.
[1] It had always amazed Sam that a. Saul knew Vetinari's first name, and b. that he persisted in always calling the Patrician 'Havelock'.
This is my first time writing Vetinari, so sorry if he is a little OOC.