Dan just stayed sitting on the steps as he waited on Isobel. He looked round as she returned, nodding his thanks at the offer of the cookies, and then filled her mug for her before pouring what was left into his own mug.
"Sit down, get comfy," he said, before shifting round to face her. "I remember you saying, yeah. I'm not used to people talking back. Not on purpose, anyway." Before he'd shown up in the hotel, the only people he'd spoken to like that were Dick and Abra.