Henry really only half-catches the look, but - yes, he mostly discards it, without spite but without really thinking about it either. He has seen it before, and it's always from people who mean well; it's just never been from a person who really knows what they're talking about before. Usually that look is tantamount to 'Oh, darling overworked Henry, why don't you go out and live a little, for a change.'

Inevitably everyone else's concept of 'living' fails to match his; in some ways this means he's just different, the way he always has been, but it some ways it points to the time he told Hasi he felt like he'd lived his whole life half asleep.

Martel is different too, of course, maybe not in all the same ways, but enough that Henry can grab something immediately: "The torches are ingenious, by the way. The form and function in tandem alone- I think your assistant was about to pull me along by the collar if I didn't take my head out of the childlke wonder."

...look he doesn't know what to call Ewar.