To be quite honest, he didn't, but that was hardly the point. "You're meant to be the one with a preference," he retorted. "You're the one who argued for this arrangement in the first place. But now it's run its course," he said with a slightly flippant gesture that was somewhere between a shrug and a wave of dismissal, as if to say what do you want me to do about it? "So it's time to make a decision."