Yeah, the... position was open. [He laughs without any humor to cover the awkwardness. That wound will always hurt, as long as he lives. You don't just lose your parents like -- like that, and not have it scar.]

Now, Rydia, can you imagine what Cecil and Rosa would say if they heard you thinking they were too busy to welcome you as a guest? They'd be scandalized! Any one of us would have loved to see you show up on the doorstep!

[It's a complicated chain of assumptions underlying with the statement, beginning with his conviction that she would have gone to Baron and Cecil would have sent word out to the others, urging them to come. Rydia showing up at Eblan seems completely impossible.]