Cade sheepishly runs the fingers of one hand over his face, the soreness on which is now completely gone. He's quickly caught by surprise when Adelaide makes her assertion, and he stares at her a moment, mortified and perhaps even a little stung.
"I--.." he sputters, and is about to start explaining himself, or denying it, but then comes the second part of the sentence. ...well.
"..I'm sorry," he says, his chest beginning to tighten with doubt. And disgust. If he'd only known, he wouldn't have humiliated himself by showing up in the first place. Unless that was intentional. He's never even spoken to this woman before, but he has no doubt now that she's had the chance to form her own conclusions.
"..I can go," he adds, a bit more quietly, defeatedly. Might as well just get it over with.