Catching Professor Strider off guard? Wonders will never cease. It at least further assures Arthur that he was probably wrong in his assumptions, but that only leads to the problem of having to work this entire thing out, and he's never really been that good at talking.

"If I might speak candidly, professor.. When you've been given the impression of being trusted by someone, and then an expression of concern by you is met with a response that more or less adds up to 'sod off', it's rather easy to assume a line has been crossed."