The question was blunt, and Jack didn't know an easy way around it. Not without lying, and he didn't really want to do that either.

So he just looked away and squinted a little. "I was busy," he said, shrugging it off.

"Once or twice," he went on, still not looking. But that was a lie too, wasn't it. And so he corrected himself. "Once. Yesterday, I suppose. Once."