in a trap, feel a strap
It was when Rozana got greedy that he knew he was in trouble. She and the oldster both. When they decided, sure, not enough to have just you, gotta get myself a little something else on the side - and make sure you know about it. Even try to get you to like it.
It was with that embarrassingly verbose internal monologue turned external that they caught him, grumbling about it. That's what they called it. Grumbling. Anyone else (anyone sensible) would've just called it assessing his situation. And they did admit that it was a situation, yes?
It was fine.