There was something very different with Montague this time - a poise he had not had before. He smiled cordially, almost a bit proud. The man was growing into himself, he believed. Not that he would allow him to keep the façade for long, of course.
'A bourbon would be quite fine,' he said with a smile, sitting down. 'And that is quite all right, no need to disrupt the boy from his studies.'
'He is adjusting well, I assume?' he asked, showing genuine interest in the matter. A child was important, even if he wasn't the heir.