Joly kisses him back in trade for the sherry. "Oh, fine. A very slow day really. I was looking up information on dinosaurs, you know, I had an argument with this giant lizard who was so insistent he was...was a velociraptor..."

His brain finally catches up with what his mouth is saying, and Joly has to put the sherry down and lean against Bossuet for few moments, giggling. "He was carrying cooking utensils!" Really, it's too absurd.