"Wouldn't miss it for the world. It was good of you to put this together. Sometimes I can't get over how little people see each other here. Not that I can talk, of course."

He glanced behind himself, and then back to Nora.

"Oh, hey, by the way - Nora, this is Vicious...the friend I told you about..." he would have worked a wink in there if wouldn't have been completely obvious, "Vicious...this is Nora."