"It is easy to grow lackadaisical here, I admit. I'd like to ask you a personal question, if you don't mind."

And of course, he'll ask it before Isaak even has a chance to say whether he minds or not. If the other man chooses not to answer it, well, then, that will be answer enough. "Are you married? Do you have children?"

From the distaste in his voice at the word children, what he thinks of children might be easily gathered.