Alice recognizes that look in his eyes. It's how a lot of people look back home, after all. The backstreets of London are absolutely filled with people like that - people who are just tired of it all.

Including Alice herself. But while that would usually give her sympathy, there's something about his words that doesn't sit well with her. It just comes across as a little too patronizing for her to not feel like a cat that's getting its fur stroked the wrong way.

"Then maybe you shouldn't go around acting as if you're all that, with your fancy titles."

Because otherwise she wouldn't have started about it either.

"Acting as if you're all that also isn't fair to the people around you. Or at the very least, it's an incredible pain in the rear end."