"You know what they say about people who doth protest too much!" Gabriel grinned to himself and leaned casually back on his perch. When Delilah appeared he just looked her over and asked cheerfully, "Who says he needs to find out?"

Abruptly he pushed himself upright, swinging his legs so he was straddling the outcrop and leaning forward on his hands, one finger half-raising in a gesture of silence or censure. "C'mon, you can't tell me it's not funny."