"I was waiting on a jolly old elf, but I guess you'll do." He certainly wasn't fool enough to admit that he had a pretty good grasp on how she acted at certain times.
Now that he had the scissors back, he finished cutting loose a section of paper. With the tip of his tongue poking out from the corner of his mouth, he carefully started wrapping a package. Thank Merlin the thing was in a box. Wrapping floppy things was even worse than things with nice, regular edges.