"Aww, but Petal? You know I crave a good cooked cow, now and again."
As for what was said after the wife's warning? In Pete's line of spook work, information often was conveyed on a need-to-know basis. Sometimes, he was prone to giving those close to him an elbow nudge and some wink-wink about certain things, as well as the random offer to pull strings if they really needed help. That was why Pete gave an almost too polite raising of his eyebrows for a moment and made a little "hmm" noise, like that was an interesting tidbit he hadn't been privy to knowing, prior to this very moment.
"And as for how you got fuckered up, you don't say? That is rubbish. Bloody ghosts, they're all over England, supposedly," Pete conversationally replied to Link, with a mildly dismissive shrug. "Has it gone away yet?"
He placed a cigarette between his lips, leaving it unlit, and looking around for a glass so he could pour them a drink.