Al subconsciously mirrored the glasses-pushing gesture, and blinked at Peter. "Normally I am neither verbally-generous, nor fast. Hm. It must be the subject." He drew himself up.
This is an Arithmancy experiment, he reminded himself. Arithmancy experiments should be taken with utmost seriousness and attention to detail that they deserve.
So Al reverted to his businesslike, crisp tones, while his mind already began putting together the plan for tomorrow. "We better start early on, perhaps by two or three o'clock in the afternoon. That'll give me time to ask Scor and Lori and confirm their availability." Somehow, he suspected that their Sunday plans were mutually made, so that made his task half as easy to achieve.
"Can you allocate such a sizable time slot to the experiment or do you have something else to accomplish by Monday?"