"Very well, Miss Wolfe. You've got me," he admits with a shrug, then goes on to instead say, "What really happened was he rescued me from a ferocious dragon and got his clothing all burnt off, so it was only fitting that I let him borrow one of my shirts. Wouldn't do to send him running around completely naked in this kind of weather, now would it?"

Again, he says it all with a straight face, a dry tone of voice, and overall looking entirely bored with the conversation, as though what he had just said wasn't completely ridiculous.