The doctor did not answer immediately, eyes remaining on the dancer. A particular reason? Yes. He wanted Remy to be more emotionally invested in their relationship. For the boy to find it an ever increasingly difficult choice to deny Sinister what he wanted for fear of losing what little he built.
"Today marks your twenty fifth year of living. As you are not yet married and have given no cause for me to believe you will be any time soon, tradition demands that you receive this now," he finally said, voice as dead as he could make it. As if attempting to hide an emotion he did not want to admit to. And he certainly didn't.