"It's sometimes easier to tear things down," he agrees, though without any of the sanctimoniousness someone might expect from that sort of declaration. Christopher often has a great deal of fun tearing things apart, after all. "Ah, I understand now!" Usually, he gets animated at this point in a declaration, but this time he is careful of Collette. "You're cooling off everyone's tempers by appealing to their instinctive love of small, soft animals. Brilliant!"