[Herbert did feel a little ignored after Maxim had gone out and preened in front of all those people, but he's not about to admit that now. In fact, he's going to ignore the comment entirely, the way he does with everything that he doesn't want to deal with, or makes him uncomfortable. Instead he latches on to the other thing Maxim said-]

Well, you certainly didn't seem to have a problem telling everyone about the rest of it.