[...]

Agreed, you don't need to apologize, Raven.

[...Maybe it was a mistake to say it. She isn't even angry at them anymore. He has a damn good idea of where she's directing that anger now, anyway.]

And you hardly need to apologize either, miss Dorothy. It was truly no trouble.

[His hand finds his cravat anyway, and it takes a considerable amount of effort to remove it; his gaze remains fixed on her, because he isn't going to acknowledge what that gesture means.]