"Look and find out!" he calls back, cheerfully, because he has no better or worse idea — having not been in this village for long, regardless of what he'd believed a handful of days earlier.

"Let it never be believed that the rich and paranoid won't find some creative way of hiding things for themselves!"

That said, he continues his door to door search down his side of the hall, carefully entering a room not overrun by water, mold, or black mold.