[ Hal makes a small, disgruntled noise. Despite his sharp descents into absolute bitchery he does wish he had the comfort of standard societal protocol for this sort of thing. ]

Someone ought to write a book.

[ ...that actually is comforting; at least he's not the only uniformed idiot. Of course Jo might have gone about trying to figure out how her new surroundings work, as opposed to Hal. He has mostly just been hiding furtively in an empty attic. ]

Hal. If you'll permit me the terrible breach of etiquette - standard or otherwise - I'll skip the bit where we profess how nice it is to have met.