"I share your sentiments exactly," Penelope smiled fondly. It had been hard, the first couple of weeks, to not sit down and leaf through each and every single book. She still caught herself on occasion reaching to do exactly that, but she tried to save her bookish explorations for when it was dreadfully quiet. Luckily, that hadn't happened recently.
"Busy. But in a good way." She looked down as he caught her hand with his, biting back a silly grin. Why yes, she was foolish enough to find it endearing. "With the weather warming up, people are looking forward to going on holiday so they purchase travel books." Or they just purchased them because they could not afford a fabulous two weeks in Italy.