She had to chuckle for the look on his face. For someone with a PHD at the end of his name he was kind of thick sometimes. And he really wasn't as subtle as he thought he was. Maria knew what he was suggesting.
"All right," she said. "But out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want to raise it? Just an inconvenience? Not really interested in being a dad?" Either was a rational reason for giving a child to Arva.