Carr was partly amused and partly offended by Murphy's protectiveness. "Aye, she has. " No disagreements on that point; he'd seen her pretty bad off.
"Hopefully she'll do a little better now Christmas is out the way." It was a hard time for a lot of people, himself included.
"I know she has a crush on me," he admitted, deciding it was probably better if he just got that out the way - and hopefully Murphy would stop glaring at him. "I would never take advantage of her."