Padraig had certainly been worried about his American self, but he had other things to attend to the second the Yanks left his shores. He had to work out how to convince Euterpe that he was serious about being with her, and he had to send George several emails full of pictures of members of the British Royal Family with their heads pasted on various farm animals.
When he answered, he was in the middle of a serious photoshopping session where even Princess Charlotte and Prince George weren't spared. He had pasted their heads onto the bodies of ducklings. He wasn't even sure what he was going for any more, just that it had started with a photo of Prince Charles' head on a pig's body, and David Cameron was also involved.
George had not been amused. Padraig had been very amused.
So as he blurred out several pixels, he answered the phone with a distracted,"hmmm?"