[smiling back, he thinks for a minute. Of course, inside he wants to run around the entire dome waving a flag that says "PM LOVES ME", but his senses are returning a bit, so instead he says:]
If they ask, I think we ought to tell them... but perhaps it isn't quite necessary to make any sort of public announcement. It isn't that I wish to keep secrets, PM—and certainly, keeping this sort of secret would be impossible before very long—it is only...
[he sighs]
What your friend Hiling said at our dinner the other night has stayed with me. If Acumen caught wind of us, that hateful machine may begin keeping a closer watch on us, and I couldn't bear him spying on you. Not when you have such important work to do for our fellow prisoners.