Faolan is rather awkward in this gathering, being familiar with the setting but not used to having to share it (and the other man) with anyone else while he's there. He'd been bad enough at the Christmas party, and only Lancelot's closest work friends had been invited to that. Never mind this.

So of course he finds himself nursing a drink. Again. He's definitely not stepping inside to keep an eye on Lancelot as he flits around the kitchen, fussing here and there over his guests. That would be silly...

"We have to stop meeting like this," he says. If he said that he didn't spend all of his days drunk and grumpy, would she believe him at all at this point?