Hal took her hand raising it quickly to his mouth to kiss it. Harder than he had expected it to be but he'd done it and so that was a start. "See, its as I keep saying, Manners are sadly dwindling in this modern age. Me, I will stick to my formalities." he added with a smile. He didn't have to think how to be social when it came to things like this, not really. He had always found it easy to treat women like this. The hard part of course was maintaining it, that was where the awkwardness had always come in after all. Hard to be polite when they were lying in a pool of their own blood.
"I would be one of those, yes. I do understand the logic of trying to redeem her but I do not believe it possible in this case. If I have to be the one to drive a sword into her gut then I will. Let people chastise us for it when the deed is done and she has no one else to hurt."
The curses and the psychotic witch was a good topic, safe, and more than that Meg seemed to agree with him which was nice to hear. He truly hoped others did too, there was room for the bleeding heart brigade when it was all said and done. Not now. As for the babbling, he had to admit it was sort of sweet.
"Babbling is entirely reasonable Meg. Please do continue. Because I assure you that you are less out of practice than I"