Several lies present themselves. If he wanted to draw on the happiest thing in his life, he could say something about wedding announcements, ask about his and Enjolras’s printing press — but that seems a violation, for reasons Claudius can’t place. He can’t use his betrothal as a cover. He needn’t get into it at all, only wave his hand, say it was a trifling thing, and they can talk about it all later. He can deflect. Instead, he says, “To speak with thee on Sagramore.”