Julian had a point, and coming off the heels of that comment about married with children it was easier to push aside his feelings about Jo Smith and recognize it. He'd done the right thing, yesterday, even if he felt lousy about the way things had turned out. Walking away from her to protect his relationship with Zelda had been the right thing to do. It would have been better still if he'd never found himself in that situation in the first place, but there wasn't much he could do about that now except continue to regret it.

"No, you're right," he said with a nod. The right thing to do moving forward was nothing, at least as far as Jo was concerned. She'd left, and he needed to just let her go — that was over, and any attempt to salvage it would risk too much with Zelda. As for Zelda... he still felt guilty when he thought of not telling her about this, even if nothing had actually happened, but he could wrestle with that on his own time.

"Thank you. Can I buy you another?" he asked, tipping his own glass in the direction of the pint Fisk had just finished.