Of course not. [He'd be more dumb and dismissive normally, but the talks with others in which his dumb jokes got taken seriously are still too fresh in his mind.]
He's the sort of man who'd cross right into the middle of a country that wants him dead, to try and rescue me. [So... he's intelligent, and skilled, and brave, and a little mad. And he loves Dorian (see: "a little mad"). All great points.]