"You can only really tell what a person is thinking, when you're talking to them face to face." Not that he'd done much other than that, before coming here. Besides writing letters of course. And it had been a long time since he'd done that, anyway.
He noticed the look she directed toward his bow, but didn't comment right away. He thought she might be put off if he made a point of having noticed, so he'd wait until she asked to look at it, if that was her want. He enjoyed this new found fame, he couldn't deny that. But the last thing he wanted was to make anyone uncomfortable.
"I'll be happy to go along with your expertise on the subject," he smiled. "Tell me a bit about yourself," he requested as they kept walking. "You invent things?" He was sure he'd read that somewhere.