That gets him a surprised look. The only person who would play with him sometimes was his mother, who didn't have a job so it was just endless free time for her and she had still spare time outside of playing with him; and then there were his caretakers, who would play with him sometimes because it was their job. For someone to offer to sacrifice the time where he doesn't have to work - "Is that what fathers normally do?"

Or is being a father like a job, so ...but does that mean that Timo will have Sunday afternoons off, or something like that, and Ivan isn't allowed to approach him in that time? He still needs to get to the bottom of this. He should have paid more attention to what the other children and her parents were like, but the noble parents usually had no job themselves (that Ivan could discern, that is) and the servants tended to interact with their children on the side of working if they lived around the house, he rarely saw them in their actual free time.