[ Maybe show listen her and she'll understand a little more of why you are so... the way that you are, Richie. ]

Well, rectify that, will you? Silence, I will endure, but it seems as if the place is wont to echo without all its little nuisances scurrying in at all hours. And I will have one less visitor that I must middleman into my life.

[ Which comes curtly enough, as if her inconvenience is his entirely to fix, but as she continues, her voice quiets, ever slightly. ]

Things as they are, I do not foresee myself venturing outside for quite some time.