[Unfortunately Arthur's just a little freak who runs into danger head-on.]

Well, so long as mine continue to- to function, more or less. I've certainly survived worse.

[But the bleak thought occurs to him: would he feel it, now, if something were to happen to his eyes? It only occurred to him then that whenever he ought to have expected his eyes to sting - from smoke, from the filthy lake water - John had commented on it.]

But, er- no, um, mister is perfectly fine. I'm- well, I have friends in the police, of course, but my partner and I were- we were private. Investigators.