It startles a snort of laughter out of him, nose crinkling, eyes screwing shut for a moment as the tension rolls away. "Because he managed to have one and not strangle it, or because he was such a difficult person?"

Both are pretty well appropriate, honestly.

"Uh-" His head rolls back, hand loose on his line as he tries to remember. "Well- Bits and pieces of the 'your father was accursed of treason so I had to clean up his mess' which always ended up with Jarvis chiming in to drag Howard more rather than defend him." A beat. "Whenever Howard overheard it'd be one of the few times I remember him laughing."