He paused, looking up at him over the rims of his glasses. Pain flashed in his eyes before he could school his expression into blankness. "I had someone," he murmured. "For a while." He put the container back in the fridge. He found a package of meat, but he didn't recognize the words on the package, so he put it back again. He wasn't up to experimenting with alien cookery. Finally he found some chicken breasts and took them over to the stove.