He gave a shrug and looked at the woman before him.  He had noticed her tense manner when she turned to him and found her face had an expression that he'd like to capture in charcoal.  He opened the canteen and took a drink himself and looked up at the ruin.  Up close it was just as lovely as it had been from distance.  He decided to do a few paintings from various points of view.  A series.  He would have to arrange to stay for a longer time.  Perhaps rent something bigger than the hotel room he currently had.  He would want to have space to put up various easles to work on things inside.

He gave her another look.  "It just thought yu might as it is quite a long climb up 'ere.  I will leave yu tae yurself."  He gave her a polite nod and turned to head back over to where he was set up to paint.  He didn't see her with anyone and didn't want to cause her any problem with her reputation.   He didn't need that kind of problem either.  Ruining some young woman was not in his plan. 

Once his paintings and drawings had started getting attention and people paying to buy them or commission him, there had been some young foolish very young girls finding it romantic to fall in "love" with him.  It was just the idea of "love" that had caused it.  He was far too realistic to fall into that kind of trap.  Though some had caused him some trouble with their fathers or older brothers before he had learned to make sure there was someone there for the younger lasses.  Older young women were still a problem at times but took more care of their reputations than the ones just out of the schoolroom.

The woman he had spoken too seemed beyond her debut, and so more likely were not as foolish as the younger ones could be.  Her face though, that expression.  If she were not alone, he would ask if she would allow him to draw her.  Once he was back at his backpack, he picked up his meal package and sat down on the grass near his set up and opened up the food.