"I listened to enough stories about your sex life," Obadiah says. "Turnabout's fair play."

His tone is one of good-natured teasing, as if they were having a perfectly ordinary conversation.

There's also an undercurrent of smugness, because as usual, Obadiah knows something Howard doesn't

(not twelve hours ago, your son was begging me to fuck him)

and he thinks it's funny.