[Rude!! His Rider is the very model of a Heroic Spirit!]

Well, it's worse than that. If you don't touch anyone for five days, you'll flat-out turn to stone. So have you been doing it?

[She's dodging the implied question!! He can't say that he's keen on helping this shady witch out, but he is a policeman, and there are dignity-preserving ways of going about it.]