I guess it's hard to have many friends when you hold a position like that so young, hmmm? No wonder!

[For all he "was"? Why the past tense? The Earl is still here and not a ghost or anything, right? He's..... well, okay. Ghost types can and do sleep. It's not like being dead would stop anyone from hanging around if they really wanted to. But that's just all the more reason to not use past tense, right? He's young and presumably has his whole life and possibly afterlife ahead of him! Your life's not necessarily over even if your life is over!]

Not at all! How could you be imposing if I'm the one who made the offer in the first place?