He gives a small laugh, the resulting smile keeping with her playfulness. Up until she goes on and mentions his dad, anyway - and Mister LaRusso? - and that slips it from his face. Robby takes in a deep breath, lets it out.

"I saw my dad," he admits. Well. "He didn't see me." So there hasn't been a discussion already had, to make that clear.

"They live close to you? I'll talk to them," since she's got a point (hey, already doing good, expert), "--but everything else about this place seems pretty important first. And I'd like a day or two without dealing with that."

A stressed that - that mess, that circus. That's enough a descriptor, for both the men.

Though, that does make him wonder. "--Do you talk to them?"

Would she bother to talk to Mister LaRusso, even?