"I greatly appreciate your tentative to make me a better person, professor Burbage." he muttered,his low voice dripping with sarcasm as his dark eyes sparkled mischievously. "But I'm afraid I won't be saying things just to make people like me... whoever they are." Even if they were attractive young women.
"Oh they all try it at least once, the new ones." And then they get tired of trying, because Severus didn't let anyone inside, or maybe no one really tried hard enough.