He tightened his grip on Eadweard's wrist to strengthen his point.
"This is between you and me."
Eadweard grimaced in pain and yelped like a puppy who had been whipped. Still trying to be macho about it all, (even though he was very much in pain) Eadweard looked at Xzavier in his best 'manly' face, and put on a show of being unafraid;
"You vermin! Do you not know... "
Even in pain, Eadweard was still trying to treat Xzavier like he was a second class citizen. Actually, Xzavier didn't care what Eadweard thought of him. All he wanted at this moment was to squeeze out an apology even if he didn't mean it. Xzavier wanted this memory burned in the farthest reaches of his brain, so at any point in the future, whenever he might consider acting out of line to a female, he would remember this moment and desist from it.
