Well enough, and as well as I think he would. I did chuckle at Eric's last line and the lead up to it.

Not going to do the whole correcting thing except for one word...

“Peaked your interest again have i? should I be flattered?”

It's Piqued! Peaked is what you do if you're a runner and arrived at your top form and feeling peaky is being unwell. That's one of my #1 annoying wrong word things (you know me and my its/it's, there/their/they're type stuff).