[However awkward this exchange is otherwise, Beckett can't deny his curiosity. This isn't the response he'd expected.] So there is still something there? You'll have to elaborate. Do you only feel those of us who are here, or the whole however many millions back home?

[Even as he asks his voice loses the careful neutral tone and eagerness starts rising in it. Congratulations, England, you got him hooked. Leading him by the nose with interesting information is laughably easy.]