To a lesser extent. [It's almost like five years of overworking himself with with a day job in addition to his skulduggery mellowed Hubert out. Kind of. A little.]

[At least he's honest about it.]

Even so, I had thought I'd made it perfectly clear. And yet... [Hubert shakes his head. More and more, he's off the mind to handle her like he did Caspar.] Corrin has a retainer of her own, on the other side of the glass. I imagined she should be familiar with such things.