[ That ... was not the direction he expected the conversation to go in? He'd just opened his mouth to say make some fresh annoying comment about how celebrating in the moment is also important, but ends up shutting it at Messmer's observation(?). Followed by an owlish blink, head tilted. ]

Hmm ... ?

[ Sorry, he's just tipsy enough that he needs a visible moment to think before he can conjure words. ]

Ah ... I wonder why you'd say that? It could be quite rude to Miss Odile, you know! I have my own selling points, but I wouldn't impose too many of those upon her -- she's a more principled person than that.