"Good choice." He rang up the order and made no comment on the other Earl. Nothing about the Queen really interested him in their home world, short of what he needed to know to keep up with the news of the day, and now that she wasn't in this world he cared for her even less.

What did interest him, other than his customers of course, was the invitation. Here was another golden opportunity to push the jest he'd started earlier, but he opted to keep it quiet for now. It was dead and done anyway. "Oh? You'd like me in the conversation, would you? Are you so sure about that?" He grinned again, directing a look at Beverly.