A rich student, then, though he'd already guessed that before she spoke. It didn't take a master of observation to realize that.

He quirked a surprised eyebrow upward at her question. She was certainly straightforward, wasn't she? Amusement and annoyance warred briefly on his face before he settled on the former.

"I made enough to get by. Money was never one of my concerns." His career was important, to say the least, but it hadn't been his income that had occupied him.

"Nor was food," he added wryly, after a moment.