"Damn you are new to Kansas aren't you?"  He laughed good naturedly.  "I've heard barbecue describe lots of way but never 'lovely'."  It wasn't so much that he was mocking her, he was just so very accustomed to the way things were in his world but it would be easy for it to come off a bit critical.  As she read he listened quietly.  "So you think Abi will like it eh?"  He didn't sound quite as confident as he had when he was pulling out his wallet at the store.  "So tell me about this guy that wrote this, what was he like?"  Xavier had at least got the love part out of it, but if there were clues as to the gender of the author in the words Robin spoke, they had floated past him and he simply assumed it was about a male poet pinning for his lost love, a situation he could relate to rather well at the moment.<br/><br/>"You've read all this before the eh?  Is that what you are studying at Abi's school?  This sort of stuff?"  He was clearly not at all immersed in ancient Greek poetry but he was at least trying to be polite about it.  As he parked with their food he nodded agreement about paging through it.  "Sure thing, it will give me something to do tonight."  He agreed as he pulled in for barbecue.  "But book reading and barbecue don't go very well together, I don't want to give Abi a scratch and sniff version from Fred's."<br/><br/>He didn't really like the idea of eating in his truck, but it wasn't all that unlikely that they would run into someone from Sedgwick and his companion would create some awkward questions.  He ate and talked a bit, and when finished looked at Robin as he sucked the excess sauce from his fingers.  "I want to thank you for helping me today."  He said as he looked at them, he seemed like there was something more he wanted to say but he didn't go on.