"Yes, that's what--um. What Kate said, that it was the Earl of Cambridge. That your horse was lame." He feels his face going hot, and puts his mind to Harry's description instead.

"A cough? I don't--" He's lived in a lot of places. With talkative people. "Oh--oh. I think I know--I had just moved into the building where one of the women at work lived. I was, oh...twenty? Years ago. I got sick."