If Adhemar feels compelled to keep a close eye on this interloper, the instinct is mutual. The physician's interest in the chapel population has vanished for the time being; he watches instead the vicar with the intensity one might favor upon a particularly large snake of indistinct coloring. And he certainly isn't going to take the first step.

"I am glad to hear it," Volodymyr dryly replies. He has, thankfully, ceased to smile, but the corners of his mouth still twitch with indeterminate emotion. He briefly bows his head. "Of course. After you, Vater. Lead zhe vay, as you must do in all zhinks."