Honestly, because he didn’t say anything.
I mentioned very superficially that I had met someone who was in a difficult situation (and in a few more words I referred to what was going on with Alexander and the children, disguised as a neighbor who had arrived recently), and Larry saw nothing wrong with me lending them a hand, as I had already suspected. He didn’t even really know where I lived or how impossible it was for me to interact with potential neighbors, and all of that influenced things. He told me it would be a very good experience for socializing if I offered a bit of help with the children, given that he was a single father and blah-blah-blah. He didn’t even talk about projections of any kind. I don’t know if our conversations bored him as much as they bored me or what, but som
