Leon put his hands on his hips and laughed. Good one! "Well, he works hard to keep it up." Well, HE didn't. But other people did.
"So are you some kind of foreign ambassador?" he asked, opening the door and going inside to drag the old hay bale out. It didn't look in particular disarray, it just wasn't CLEAN. He wasn't serious, it was pretty obvious that this guy wasn't nobility. Definitely foreign, though.