[Rideaux isn't going to help matters by looking pleased with himself about this. But it really is good information to have. It helps him process his own feelings on the matter a little further. Having this knowledge, though...he really must have put Yuri's feelings through the wringer more than he knew.]

Well, I have been told that I can be intimidating. It would only be natural to be nervous about confessing ones feelings to me.

[Which was by his own choice. He had put up quite a few walls around himself. But Yuri was very good at tearing them down.]

I don't know how long you had been holding this in, but you have no need to be concerned anymore. [...] If my reciprocation to your advances just now was any indication, I quite like the idea of giving our mutual sense of importance a more intimate definition.