He usually kept close tabs on what was coming in and going out - he'd developed a healthy paranoia over the years. This had been a particularly baffling list, and remained so, as this wasn't the sort of knowledge gap he could make up with books.
He could just listen to it, he supposed. But this was a much better way to go about being introduced, so far. "Hm. Good." He let his arm fall from the back of her chair to around her shoulders. He was a miserable tutor, but she already knew that for a certainty.