[ He's more than happy to reassure him otherwise, that he need not give him anything in return. ]

You know, in all of this world and the next, the up and the down, the east and the west, the universe, in fact - I don't think I'd find a better shoe shiner, button stitcher, hat fluffer - oh, that's a thing I just invented - anyway. I wouldn't find a more talented person at any of that than you. But when I return, you will have all the caramel apples I can find. And you don't owe me anything at all. Promise.