At least Elliot gave what Mason thought was the appropriate reaction. "For those who care, it's quite the scandal." Mason rolled his eyes. He didn't want to have to care about things like this, but he didn't exactly have a choice. Mitigating the gossip was one of his least favorite things to do and it had been a long year of it. "I'm trying to keep my hands clean of the whole thing." Just another reason he was going to wind up alone or maybe, hopefully, find someone who had hadn't had as a student, but that was getting more and more difficult these days with a decade of teaching under his belt. He wasn't getting any younger, after all.