Julien nodded absently then realised he should say something. "Yeah, we just bumped into each other and got to talking and then he asked me over. It's not something, I mean, no, you're right. I don't really get asked to go out and things like that. But you've done that too, right, gone round a friend's house?" For the first time he wondered if there was some subtlety there that he once again had failed to pick up on.