"Dr. John Smith." Introducing himself as the Doctor, for the time being, had become terribly inconvenient. Yet people usually still referred to him as the Doctor anyway.

He plucked his hat off in a brief greeting, though his expression changed little. She was obviously irritated and he was held in his slightly nervous and most confused to be here mindset that he couldn't quite shake.

"I'm not terribly fond of it, either! There's nothing quite so diverting, distracting, and downright disconcerting as having someone breathing down your neck while you're tending to important work. Believe me, I've done it to people before. So if we arrange our schedules we can try to be in one another's personal space as limitedly as possible and it'll be over in two shakes of a leg." No, wait, where did that go? Oh ignore it.