Some of his suspicions eased the moment Rodolphus asked him to keep his injury to himself, and he smiled as he nodded.
'Of course, anything you wish,' he said, almost wishing he could be true. He very carefully did not give his word, as that was something he tried never to break. On a few occasions he'd been forced to do so by things that were out of his control, but that was a different thing. There were other ways of reassuring people.
'I do not like to keep things from Padma,' he added, quite truthfully. 'But since you ask I could...delay in telling her until you find the time ready,' he said, as he would had this been a normal conversation, in a normal situation and there hadn't been a war raging outside the comfort of the study they were in.