[Raising both his brows he seemed to hesitatingly acknowledge the presumption that Adele implied, smiling in a softer, more familiar way than would be appropriate for just friends. Then he cleared his throat and set out to opening the cans he'd taken out to prep for eating]

Trauma surgery is... yeah.

[Maxine never did look quite well-settled when she had to do the things she needed to regarding trauma surgery.]

Pretty intense, I'll say. I don't envy you that occupation. Hopefully things are... marginally better, though. Sure is for us, despite the interesting... environs. But it gets Jack in some legitimate suspenders, not bad.