Patience smiled, and would have launched into talking about baking and how wonderful it was and given him some basic tips, possibly even recommended a few books, but she was distracted from that before she could start speaking.
Shoot. She had had a niggling feeling that she shouldn't mention Fred to too many people, and she'd gone and done it anyway. Had she gotten him in trouble? She would have done quite a lot to protect her friend, and she would have felt terrible if something bad happened to him because of her.
"Um," she said, not sure what to make of his expression. "Why? Do you?"