"Hard but enjoyable. Idle thumbs, as they say." Reuben replied, "Your life must be just as hard- without the chance to go outside and see the world without permission from doctors." He said, genuinely feeling sorry for the boy. He couldn't imagine the sort of life he would should he not have had his own good health, trapped inside. "Perhaps I could bring you one or two more books to read? I imagine you've swept through your uncle's library like a wild wind, and it might do your studies some good."