You want to spend all your waking hours working? Well, now you have free reign to do it. I won't be here to piss you off with my unreasonable demands!
*locks cold eyes on yours and he may as well be looking straight through you* Yes. Of course. This is exactly what I want. How dare you?
*and no, he doesn't understand that there could be something serious happening in Gondolin that he is not privy to (something you won't tell him), but even if there is, the suggestion that he has done all this, any of this for himself is simply too much to abide*
*doesn't wait for your response but turns and stalks back into the bedroom to collect his wallet and keys, wounded beyond words* *chooses some words anyway, calling out to you as though the flippant barbs don't hurt him, too* I apologize for boring you so utterly, my lord. I'd best be off to tonight's performance but luckily you won't have to suffer through it. Fuck off to Ondolindë and good riddance to you.