[A frown tugs at his face, though certainly not at the joke mired in references he cannot hope to understand.]

I’ve been surrounded by my fair share of researchers poking and prodding at their curiosities to achieve some nameless goal. If I have to live with it here, too, I expect you to keep your work separated from the rest of the activities in this house. Especially the specimens.

[For the sake of reiteration.]

I assume you won’t have much company over?