"Sometimes you don't have to know a person for long to bond with them." David gave Joey a smile. "You don't have to tell me any details you don't want to. Honestly, I may find it too difficult to imagine. I am used to controlling myself and my own discomfort, but deliberately inflicting any of that on someone else is abhorrent to me." The shortbread on the table was really for Joey as a habit of hospitality. David was reverting to old methods of his asceticism, although trying to be subtle so that Patrick and George wouldn't argue with him about it. It helped him feel like he could control something.
"Perhaps we start with... how he took you. If you would like to."