It's fine, I said... It isn't as if I expect you to want to spend every day with me or anything like that, not when... [well, you're you. And there are all these beautiful people around and of course you'd get bored of his inability to take or give compliments]
[Before he can say anything more, of course, his brain catches up with his words and he frowns a little] Athos? I thought you were already... [waves his hand a little] involved.