Alfred ought to have expected a question about Zelda, given their last interaction — and particularly since he'd just slipped up on calling her by the proper name, half a moment ago. Still, he'd been hoping Evander's hesitancy to do anything that would lead to awkwardness might save him from needing to launch into a conversation he didn't really want to have. He knew he ought to tell Evander something about Zelda, particularly if they were actually going to go through with her plan to just announce a courtship once he was curse-free. They were already running the risk of alienating everyone in her family for the foreseeable future; they didn't need to start distancing his, too (though it might be argued that Alfred and Evander had already done a fairly good job of distancing themselves, honestly, without any interventions from young women).

Still, he was reluctant. He didn't want to tell Evander what the plan actually was before it was carried out, because Evander would only try to talk him out of it. That, and Alfred wasn't sure he even knew enough of what Zelda had in mind to talk about it. And even if he did, it wasn't as though they had exactly committed to anything yet. What if she got cold feet and changed her mind? It might be better to just leave Evander out of the loop until Alfred was quite certain that there was a loop. But since Evander had asked, his options on the subject were limited. Alfred had no particular intention to lie about anything.

"Uh, yeah," he said, poking at a bit of untouched food on his plate in order to avoid making eye contact. "Sure."

He left it at that. Allowing Evander to ask questions, after all, did not leave him any obligation to launch into a summary of his history with Zelda — and even if it did, Alfred wouldn't have known where to start.