This time, he has himself to blame for continuing on that topic at all. He should have just changed it completely. Now would kind of be a bad time to do so, though, and he has to accept the fact that he's just in this conversation now.

It's fine, really. Everything considering, it wasn't ... too bad. But he also picked the nice and painless way out.

"I hope he's doing okay."

He hadn't spoken to Jim all that much, but he liked the guy.