"Clearly I do," Aidan agrees with a smile, and takes a sip of whiskey. "There's a lot in a name, no matter what the old fella said." By which he means Shakespeare. Yes, he's contradicting what he said earlier. So? "Would you call yourself pretty?"
Yeah, they've completely strayed from the original topic, but it doesn't matter to Aidan more than that and in those cases, he tends not to be very attentive. Tangents are welcome.