"If you would like one, yes." He does, at last, turn his attention from his writing to regard Claudius thoughtfully. "He may not recall it all, he was in his usual form going on about something or another. Courfeyrac had brought Pontmercy along with him to introduce him to all of us. Everyone was going on about something, it was quite a normal meeting in that sense of things. Until someone brought up Waterloo --ah, the battle where Buonaparte was defeated."