This time he feels the clamor in his ether, and makes a slight bow, saying, "No, no, I really must beg your indulgence, just for today. Anyway, mistakes made on a student's first day are more expected than funny, ne?"
"Then you'd better work hard," he doesn't answer unsympathetically. "However far you go ultimately, or don't, you're at least going to stop being a danger to my flatware just by existing."