"Ah Patrick and Nicholas." because their names were quite synonymous with trouble; there had been warnings about the two of them attempting to escape curfew, but he had it well under control.. there was no need to get the other man involved. Riley liked to think that with a gaggle of brothers, he knew how to reign them in and he had been the eldest.

As for the look of interest, he would've been a fool not to have noticed it. He did, and it was flattering even if part of him did not know what to do with it. HIs own blue eyes, fringed with lashes attempted to glance downward at his own coffee cup as if he felt he could not look into those eyes for any period of time without giving himself away.

"I can imagine you were a dose of trouble yourself?"

And then he quickly ammeded, "Probably are is more like it.." not an allusion to the discussion in the chapel, he was not going to bring that up and this evil. Fighting any sort of conflict with compassion, that was the way-- wasn't it?