Gariland bears the old man's rhetoric with as much patience as he can muster.  Under the circumstances, that would be a fair bit of patience, as he has nothing truly pressing aside the knowledge of his state of dress.  After bearing it out and filling in the requisite information to register, he cannot help but look over at the commotion in the Eating Contest line.  When he spies the other young man he encountered earlier, being called champion of a noble house, he is at first quite distressed.  Then he sees the noble herself, and once again considers himself with the greater share of fortune.<br/><br/>With little else to do at the moment, Gariland returns to the inn to see about a barmaid and a meal.