[Are there dogs in sight from the veranda? Are they eating pork? Ham and cheese sandwiches, for simplicity's sake? Then it wouldn't be very pleasant at all, would it?]

I haven't discussed the matter of my employer's estate with anyone who wasn't involved. Why would you be the first?

[He's wondering if Hannibal's going to outright state that Cordell owes him, essentially, everything. Freedom from an awful situation (that, granted, he got himself into and didn't know how to get out at the end of it all), freedom from being convicted of the crime he actually committed, freedom to commit the crime...does Cordell owe him an answer? Of course he does. He knows he does. He's just wondering what sort of man, exactly, this Doctor Hannibal Lecter actually is outside of...well, the last time they met.]