[This is all still very ??? to him, but if Hubert is trying to get him to relax a little...well, he won't, but he'll at least stop trying to be quite so on top of things needlessly. He can't help it, of course; it's just a fact of life for people like them, who always have to appear to at least be in control and on top of things.
He clears his throat.]
...As you say, we may as well eat calmly while given the option to.
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[This is all still very ??? to him, but if Hubert is trying to get him to relax a little...well, he won't, but he'll at least stop trying to be quite so on top of things needlessly. He can't help it, of course; it's just a fact of life for people like them, who always have to appear to at least be in control and on top of things.
He clears his throat.]
...As you say, we may as well eat calmly while given the option to.