[ ...but Abel gives a little laugh when all is said and done, waving dismissively as he drains the rest of his (now kindly discardable) champagne flute ]

My~! You truly are a wordsmith, aren’t you? Claude, don’t tell me you’re some sort of poet or scholar back home... I can see it all too well~! That kind of thing does wonder for your popularity with the ladies too, right? That’s what I hear, anyway...