"I did," he confirms, relinquishing the glove now that she's here and able to take it. "By that time, you'd already gone. I hate to be late, but d'Artagnan had a wedding that I was to take part of and, as I'm sure you've noticed, I have more responsibilities at hand," he says, with a deferential nod to the new pauldron (though he's sure she could likely see it in the set of his face alone, as well as she knows him).