"Ridiculously," Claudius confirms, and this time he can't help a little laugh when Galahad licks somewhere lightly ticklish. "There was a time when I would avoid saying I love thee to anyone except through the most convoluted circumlocutions. Like with Crowley at the party, I suppose." That so long ago, he seems to imply. He was an unmarried man, a bachelor. "I cannot say it to thee enough."