"Pardon the expression. I know it's not particularly appropriate for someone who claims not to buy into any of that psychic stuff, but... sometimes you just have a feeling. You know what's going to happen, or what's not, because you know yourself. What I know is that I've never loved anything I could actually have, so... there it is." He shrugs at the second question, ultimately failing to answer it.

"It's a party. You should try to have fun," he suggests, a gentle way, perhaps, to ask James to leave.