He hadn't considered that it might bother her. "I won't trouble you by describing it then," he said apologetically. "But I will say that if you've got any curiosity about how things are put together, they're interesting to study a while." He'd been fascinated, but that was beside the point.
"I keep meaning to cross the street and say hello," he offered instead. "Think I probably can, now that the store's set to my liking."