Claudius takes the knowledge in stride, with only a flickering scowl and an eye-roll when hears his two dearest friends met the business end of that whip — of course a man who storms about a place with weapons drawn is well-prepared to use them. “What an ass,” he says, a shorter and more pointed take-down of Jiang Wanyin’s personality. “Wert thou able to scape him even so?”