That's puzzling and he isn't sure what to think of the drive versus what he had expected. Still, he isn't backing away, he even takes another step toward R.

"I know many a man who would be grateful to leave their human side behind in my line of work, and I too know when to turn it off and on again. But I cannot be anyone but myself, much to the lament of those around me."

He reaches a hand out, hesitating slightly before touching R's arm.

"I am sorry."

For so many things, that R has to be this way, that Cuthbert reacted in a way that obviously scared and upset him, that both of them were there to begin with. There's any number of things Cuthbert could be sorry about, both personally and generally, right now. And he's felling almost all of them right now.