"Pretty good, I hear. He's been fawnin' over his squidbaby a whole lot, so I ain't seen much of him."

He's also been emitting some suspiciously makeout-like noises from behind the closed door of his room occasionally, but Val isn't going to offer up that tidbit, because her shrewdest guess of who those makeouts have been with involves telling Marley the Big Secret, and she's betting Steve's not ready to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the closet.