Cuddy had always had her suspicions, but when she saw him, clean-shaven, wearing a plain tie (which was almost certainly Wilson's) with another flamboyant one tied about the handle of his cane, grinning like the Cheshire cat, she knew. Well, they certainly weren't the most subtle pair she'd met, but nobody else seemed to have noticed. Which was just as well, really, the Dean supposed, smiling to herself as she watched Wilson try vainly to retrieve either of his ties from House, who dodged out of the way with surprising speed for a man who was supposedly a cripple.