"Well, yeah. I mean... I think most people would get nervous about that."

Which makes him empathize a bit more, trying to imagine how nerve-wracking it must be. And that's really the first he's thinking of the concept it in the context of them, of him and Neil, and that thought sort of catches him off guard. So he swaps it back to Billy.

"Maybe he'll be back again in a few months. We can see how nervous he is then."