[He listens carefully, as is his habit, and with the slow patience that is bred into him not only by his father but by the air that envelopes him stores the instructions in the catalogue of his memory. Then he takes the fork from her and sets its tines to the contents of the bowl in a circular motion, not quite slowly but hesitantly. While he works, his glance flickers up to her.]
If you don't mind me asking, isn't Anderson usually a surname?
[Yet even a he asks, he is ready to chalk it up to yet another oddity of this incomprehensible woman.]
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If you don't mind me asking, isn't Anderson usually a surname?
[Yet even a he asks, he is ready to chalk it up to yet another oddity of this incomprehensible woman.]