Noble was being so stupid, and maybe if he'd had some very good excuse Ford could have forgiven him for it (though he could not at the moment conjure up anything that might have been a suitably good excuse for behavior like this); instead he seemed to think this was funny. Ford was irritated by the twist of Noble's mouth and the tone of his voice, but he didn't know if it was worth saying anything. What was the point of arguing with someone while they were drunk? Nothing he said was going to get through to Noble if he thought this was funny; the only thing a conversation would do would be to make Ford more irate about it.

"Go sleep it off," he said, cool. "Then we'll talk about it."

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