I believe you would be hard-pressed to find someone who wasn't frightened by the prospect of someone dying mysteriously as if on cue. [He pauses thoughtfully for a moment. Actually, that was a complete lie - he knows several people who would find it anywhere from pleasantly fascinating to sexually gratifying.] -Normal people, anyway.

[There's still some residual blushing, but the fact that Sophie didn't react negatively to his question makes him breathe a sigh of relief.] Well, I wouldn't know how to estimate stages of pregnancy with any sort of accuracy so I just assume that it's late as soon as I can tell that something's there. I've never known all that many women - it's just not something that I have experience with. [It doesn't help that most of the women he's known in the last several years have been prostitutes.]