Marian nodded, his hands moving against her cheeks as she did. "Pour the tea," she said to Robin, "and I'll give these another hot making." Yeah, that would work for words. Words were such a pain.
Marian did indeed giving the cinnamon scrolls another quick hot making before bringing them over to the table and transferring one to the second plate. She licked icing from her fingers and waited for Robin to join her. But while he was still setting up the tea she said, "the Thumbsucker came to visit the house in Arizona when I was there, did you know that?" She didn't know if John's minor part of the story had filtered out to anyone or not.