Lifting his hands slightly he gave an apologetic look "I apologize, absolutely." he said nodding, his hand about to reach for the drawer to take his notepad out but then stopped. Nope...not even going to consider the drawers til he knew there were NO MORE buzzers anywhere.

Flipping a paper over he carefully took a quill from the cup, breathing a sigh of relief. If there had been one there it must have been summoned with the others... Ready to write some notes on the back of...well he didn't want to think of what it was he was writing on probably something for the minister, would be just his luck