You would have to consider yourself my patient. [He posed this, delicately.] Which, given the strenuous circumstance of your initial arrival, and the onslaught of traumatic interpersonal reunion, we could accept as a verbal agreement.

[He would bend the rules for Ward, though still within Chilton's definition of which angle they ought to be bent. That gaze, and the intensity therein, the whisper of something unhinged -- that didn't escape Chilton's notice.]

I can help you, Grant.