He didn't know quite what to make of the surprise, but chose to interpret it as realization. It was possible, albeit very unlikely, that they had just stumbled onto the same thing. "Yes, then. I didn't think you had." He took a sip of his wine that was longer than it needed to be, half stalling and half bracing himself. Putting the truth out for a definitive answer was not his usual modus operandi. "You ought to have come back, actually." At least half of him was screaming that he was a bloody idiot.