Conrad was not happy with the words that the normal-looking cloth merchant had said to him, but seeing that he went from his presence to talking to the other two about how to ally with Andrew, it bothered him even more.
He held a grudge against Andrew for how things had happened and now the allies he thought he could use to help him were turning their backs on him and the worst thing was, they were doing it in his presence.
It was not a hidden stab, but a frontal one, which somehow felt much more painful. Make no mistake, Conrad did not feel that way, because he believed that his friends were abandoning him.
Conrad did not consider any of those present his friend, but, even so, he felt uneasy, since the tools that he thought they had obtained, were now abandoning him, as if the tool had been him.