He can't deny that the boarding house is a sound idea. He'd rather extricate himself from the festivities until his blood cools. If worse comes to worst, he can help the process along on his own. She's clearly eager to get free, herself. Hap's deeply versed in anatomy. He's cleaned a thousand wounds. This won't take long.

He cooperates. It takes a few steps for their footfalls to sync up.

"Are you going to tell me what it is we're going to get?"