Ellie and Barclay and OPEN
Barclay scoffed at that, because he'd forgotten Ellie was an Anton kid. Really, he could barely tell them apart: he only knew Sorin very well. The rest were sort of unknown to him. After all, this might be the first real conversation he had with Ellie.
He was about to apologize, but then Ellie decided to feed him some truth. Very well. "Well, as long as we're being honest, you're just a judgmental stick-in-the-mud without a sense of humor. I'm sorry for not having read up on your biography."