Any hopes that he might truly be interested in her answer died when she said it was about a debutante. He supposed it was probably natural for young women to want to read fiction they could insert themselves into, but he didn't read that sort of thing and didn't intend to. He could have feigned interest and asked her some other questions about the book, but given their earlier conversational turn he thought his disinterest might be too obvious. She was apparently vigilant enough to sniff him out when he stopped paying attention to what she was saying. He wasn't sure whether that was a mark in her favor or not.

"Do you enjoy travel yourself?" he asked instead.

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