[Totally sane answers. One he likes very much. There's another laugh of approval.]

If only it had come to pass. But then it is better you did not, if only for witnesses being quite the trouble.

[Like that time one stupid maid saw him beat someone to death, didn't even know who he was, and still managed to set the whole city after him?? Or having to sit through an entire evening with exasperating men to pay them off when the bank opened. Don't have witnesses.]