Adith caught the smile directed at him and felt his cheeks grow warm. He had hardly had much of an opportunity to meet women, not with being kept inside and he had certainly never met a young woman who offered him a smile like that. No, they had all be stern nurses who never smiled in his experience.
It was then he caught sight of the pocket watch in the boy’s grip and foolishly realised what had actually happened. He had been stolen from. It came as such a shock to him that for a moment he found it hard to speak, the fact that someone could blatantly take from him something of his own and in daylight to.
“Um... I think you should return that.” He said quietly, hoping this would not become an ugly scene. "I wouldn't want to have to inform anyone inside that you had taken it."