"You don't just...come for the thing of it?" He can understand why he'd want to skip this year, there've been half a dozen people offering their condolences . Chuck can read Raleigh, even after all this time, and can tell it's grating on him--especially 'condolences', that's what people offer when someone dies--and Chuck's had to play the asshole and pointedly push a cup of wine at them.

He's surprised Raleigh didn't want to just come, he was always the one dragging Chuck out (though Chuck was pretending to object to it), the one getting excited about the holidays.