Understanding showed in her tone as April answered.

"He laughed. It wasn't that he was laughing at the thought of me as an agent, it was because he wasn't treating you like you were a valid threat."

Pulling up a pair of mugs from the shelf below the hot pad, Mark nodded.

"Precisely. I'll only put up with so much guff from those numpties, whether they have more time in than me or not."

Putting a tea bag to each mug, Mark carefully added the hot water before setting one of the mugs in front of April.