He wasn't a fan of granting private audiences with traitors and he made plain his dislike to the captain's request. Something rubbed him wrong about letting her in to see Davis, or perhaps he just felt that a traitor was getting far more attention than he deserved
Is there a particular reason why you need to speak to him, captain? I don't think I need to make it clear that if it weren't for the SIS and their insistence on keeping him alive, he would not have made it off the landing pad. He wandered about his office, cane in hand, toying with the idea of having a drink before dismissing it and turning back to the younger woman. And why in private? why do I have the God awful feeling that you somehow know him?