He was going to ask, it was the biggest question on his mind as Sebastian kept going around the subject instead of addressing it directly. What do you do, that would make you this way? That would incite you to take apart a house, rather than simply move into someplace different?
A butler. It almost makes him want to laugh. ]
... Ah. I suppose I understand, I have a... butler myself, at home. He's much the same.
[ It seems disingenuous to Alfred to ignore his chosen profession when he takes such pride in it. The idea of running into another butler here when the profession isn't quite as common as it once used to be, when it's almost archaic -- to pretend he's unfamiliar with what makes a butler, it would feel insulting. So, he had to give Sebastian that much. He's a butler. Bruce has one as well. He understands it. ]
You needn't bow though. That's a little, mm, strange. But that makes me think -- this is an odd question but what year is it where you're from?
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He was going to ask, it was the biggest question on his mind as Sebastian kept going around the subject instead of addressing it directly. What do you do, that would make you this way? That would incite you to take apart a house, rather than simply move into someplace different?
A butler. It almost makes him want to laugh. ]
... Ah. I suppose I understand, I have a... butler myself, at home. He's much the same.
[ It seems disingenuous to Alfred to ignore his chosen profession when he takes such pride in it. The idea of running into another butler here when the profession isn't quite as common as it once used to be, when it's almost archaic -- to pretend he's unfamiliar with what makes a butler, it would feel insulting. So, he had to give Sebastian that much. He's a butler. Bruce has one as well. He understands it. ]
You needn't bow though. That's a little, mm, strange. But that makes me think -- this is an odd question but what year is it where you're from?