Well, he's already given up hope for a quiet evening without having to talk to anyone, so...

"Well enough," Childermass agrees, "And it was the stage manager. Miss Ashleigh and I went to find him while we were all in the vampire's realm." He doesn't want to call it hell. It's really weird, thinking he's been to a hell, so he just won't say it. "He attacked, but a knee to the face was as bad as it got."