'You said they won't be coming back again, didn't you?'

He blows a stream of smoke towards the ceiling, stretches his back out and looks around for something to ash his cigarette in to. He's restless, which is probably understandable, but not short with her. He's played the post-coital chat scene many times in his life, he can reproduce it again.

'How did you die?'

He doesn't think he ever got that bit of the story, but it's equally possible he tuned it out.