In part, he wished she had asked him to find a friend of hers, or that she would have decided to call a friend to her side. He is no friend to her, only an acquaintance through her assistance to the young Earl, but her wants in this time are understandable. He doesn't know who she was dancing with, only that the man must have meant something to her to have her shaken so after his departure, but he does know a thing or two about the afterlife.

Rather than keep his back to her, since they're continuing to talk and it'd be a bit rude, he turns so she has his side now, though he makes no move to go back to her. "Most people go their entire lives without seeing ghosts, spirits, souls - whatever you might call them. They're one and the same. If this is just a quirk of the city, I don't know for sure, but I can say I haven't seen anything like it here until just recently. This month... it tends to be a powerful month for the dead. I wonder if it's the same across worlds."

That would be quite interesting to find out. He's only ever had his own experiences around England within his time period. In that thought, he found a question for her. "Do you ever hear people in your world talk about having seen their life flash before their eyes when they felt close to death?"