It's easy enough to recognize all of this as evasive maneuvering, and something that's normally simpler to just let go. But today, for many reasons (but principally that the vampire's about to both go hurt himself and effectively end whatever possibility there might have been for their day together) Dorian's unwilling to give in.

"If all of that's true, then why are you preparing to leave to go drink yourself into a stupor?"