[It gives him pause. (At least metaphorically; he doesn't stop helping.)]

I suppose I hadn't thought of it in that light.

[Terrific, now he can be anxious both when talking and when not talking to people.]

Rowntree offered to start training with me. After I got out of the infirmary, with the lyrium. [The lack of it.] It was a surprise [an understatement], though I took him up on it.