“I assure you, those days are very much behind me.”

“The war is, for all intents and purposes, at an end.”

“How charming…”

“Charles has sent you to call upon me like some disobedient child summoned to the headmaster’s study, hrm? Then again, I suppose I shouldn’t expect anything less from my old friend…”

“Don’t suppose I might be able to interest you in a game?”

“Please.”

“Don’t make me do this.”

“If you would be so kind as to keep the noise down, please?”

“Thank you.”

“And what can you do, hrm?”

"Speak up, now. I am an old man, after all…”

“ - you.”

” - what … what do you want? How did you find me?“