[Goodsir shrugs and sips his tea. He isn't certain that being sweet is a good thing - on a ship full of adventuring men such a word would have been more of an insult, but Tim clearly means it as a compliment.]

Everyone deserves their dignity.

[He takes another sip before he can give utterance to anything bitter about how, in the end, there may not be any.

Goodsir looks up and smiles.]

Ah. Yes, thank you. I've seen the library and it is most extraordinary. And the grounds are lovely to walk about.

I daresay I am actually beginning to believe this place is real, in spite of its eccentricities.