He fidgets with his glasses for a moment - a bit of a shame that he won't have anyone else with him in this particular mess, but ... they were always going to be split up, after all. Already had been.
They were always going to have to work around this problem.

"Thanks," he says, genuinely appreciative of the information. "D'you know who or is there some kinda rule against you tellin' before they get to it?"