He was blissfully unaware of what she wasn't going to say, or he might already know since her father filled her in on one thing already. He continued to stroke her knuckles and then tilted his head when her smile seemed to falter. Was she alright? But then she replied to him about seeing his house and he nodded, "I will take ye after we eat." He had just bought the little yellow house that Karen Calloway had vacated, poor lass.