Alistaire stops, turning slowly as he cracks more eggs, to look at his audience. "Intimately, young lady, I assure you. That's not how I like to conduct myself though. Hospitality, honoring one's word, bargaining fairly... those are things I value and respect.

I'm not a monster, or some mustache-twirling villain... I'm a businessman, who likes to have a good time when not trapped behind a desk and a computer screen.

Right now? I'm just a gentleman fixing something to eat for myself and my employee; and for you, since this is your home and you haven't seen fit to drag me back to that horizontal prison cell your Mrs Ramsey calls an infirmary bed."