There's the tiniest hint of guilt in his expression before he can clamp down on it, because he knows full well that he would, in fact, take on everything himself just to spare Theo the interruption - at least, everything he could take on himself. Not that he thinks he'd handle it even half as well, but he'd try.

"And what is this compromise you suggest?" He asks, slightly suspicious that Theo was trying to wriggle his way out of actually taking a break somehow.