( now, ambrose doesn't want to overstep boundaries here (or maybe he does) and say something that's going to somehow cause offense but that sounds...a little too familiar. )

Are you seeing things?

( in the end he just goes for bluntness. if he's not, then he'll say no. if he is, then they'll have something in common. )

Or feeling things that shouldn't be there but you swear that they are? Because, if you are, I am going to be relieved if only because it means I haven't had a bad batch of booze.