Henry nodded in understanding and vowed not to bring it up again in conversation. The tips of his ears were still very pink. He glanced back down at his open notebook and cleared his throat. "So, I've been working on cataloguing the plant life on the grounds. I'm not nearly finished yet, there's a great many I haven't seen before, but it looks like we have quite a few decorative plants that also happen to be very useful. I've been collecting some here and there every so often to let them dry but is there... Do you know if some sort of modern gadget exists that might speed up the process?"

Better to just move onto something else and not concern himself with the discomfort of the moment. She'd been here longer than he had, hadn't she? Surely seemed the type to have explored a great many of the buildings or be familiar with much more in the kitchen than he was.