Doing something petty because someone expressly doesn't want you to is the kind of game Victor has seen travel from school yards to prisons and it isn't something he has tolerated at any stage of his life. He's certainly not going to start now.

Once the threat has been leveled and heard though, Victor sees no reason to press the matter as long as it has been heard. He's also not stupid enough to do something more flashy in public and he's already set up something for Rupert to trip on to make his point.

"Define 'like this'? Do you mean less-than-thrilled about strangers touching me part, or generally standoffish part?"