Long years of practice are all that's keeping Grahame from fiddling with the letter. The display of nervous behavior is not something he needs right now.

He doesn't answer right away; he's never been as good at repartee as he'd like to be. Not when the other person knows him nearly as well as he knows himself. Violet could always silence him, and Cal found the right weapons against him too in the end. He knows all too well how neatly Cal can take him apart now, if he chooses.