You know, I'm not entirely sure?

( - ruefully. )

People were beginning to get the idea that Lord Luthor is courting me, and I might have said some unflattering things about Brother Jehan to his brother in a letter and he might have threatened to tattle on me about 'the Marcher' and I was trying to make sure that Alexander -

( yes. )

- didn't feel he had to stop speaking to me to quell it. Well, ( philosophically, ) it turned out he didn't feel that way.