Put it around your neck when you do. Nice and tight. [A pause, then-] I'll help.

[Is he overreacting and letting himself get riled up over nothing? Probably, yes. But he's annoyed now and the other man is just coming off as annoyingly smug so he's hardly going to just let it go.

Even if that might be the wiser course of action as Alistair scowls and steps up his finger waving to waving his arms about in exaggerated frustration. Taking him from disapproving grandmother to somewhere between crazy person and idiot. Back to normal in other words.]

How could you think I was talking to you? I wasn't even looking at you or talking loud enough for anyone who's not an eavesdropping sneak to hear! You just wanted to annoy someone and decided I'd do, admit it!