Ah, still thirteen years away then. [It makes him grin, faintly, though to think of Arthur being knighted. All of his confusion at being invited to the manor for a party would be nothing compared to a knighthood. He wants to laugh a little.]

Oh yes, I was holding a bit of a party for a relation of the queens, so I invited Doctor Arthur. He was... [Hm.]

He was quiet, a bit shy really, but quite intelligent. A bit lacking in confidence though, he kept insisting he was 'just an ophthalmologist' and was quite surprised to hear I had read his work.