Kieran had an impulse to grit his teeth; instead, he took another sip of his drink. Sometimes it was difficult to believe that Jude had grown up in the same world as he had — different class, different family, but same world. Explaining this was going to be like pulling teeth.

"And this may be the rare situation where you can seem more normal than your competitors," Kieran got out. Normal, whatever that meant — Kieran doubted that Prewett or Picardy were confirmed bachelors, if only because he did not want to have a single thing in common with Picardy.