Then you are well beyond I, in understanding this.

[Lyall looks somewhere between rueful and lost when saying that. This is so far beyond his understanding that he's completely lost on just how to approach it. Perhaps gathering more information is best.]

Where are you from, Mister Foster? Surely not the same place I am, not dressed like that.

[And given the variety of people around them, he's guessing not many are from the same places....]