[The laughter doesn't help the colour go away - quite the opposite in fact - and he takes a much larger sip to try (and fail) to hide the fact of it.]

S-still, it was- unbelievably rude of me, I-I-I should have made more of an attempt to ask-- [if he'd thought to bring John with him then he would have known immediately and he's fucking mortified.] I can certainly stop intruding on your time like this- shit--

[That comes from him trying to get to his feet and immediately whacking a shin into the table in his haste to make less of an idiot of himself.]