The shove was enough to knock Sydney off balance, but honestly he'd been expecting a punch, so it wasn't all that bad. Just a little spilled bourbon, which he frowned at.

"Maybe she didn't mean to," Syd knew that didn't make too much sense, but women were strange creatures. "If things were or are serious enough that it got that far, maybe she panicked or something. Women are weird, I don't pretend to know what they think. Maybe you said something that set her off." He might have been rambling now as he reached, to take the notice from a struggling Edric and open it (with a little difficulty himself).