There was the slightest of hesitations, because he knew that 'Ignis states the obvious' was not a feature that had turned out in his benefit, in the past, but at least this might at least open up some perspective to the conundrum at hand, perhaps...

"Have you considered Eric at all?" he asked, and then his head tilted as he mused along this line of thought a little further. "And I trust your friend Olivia has also been dismissed. I can only imagine her...intensity," yes, he'd only met the woman once, but she'd left quite an impression, and not the ones he'd suspected she'd have liked to have left on him, "would be difficult to rein in in this particular setting..."