Karen thought for a moment.  He must mean something different that what she thought because she couldn't see the correlation.  She stared at Anthony until finally realization dawned.  "Oh, Anthony," she began.  "You mean...do you mean?  You don't mean that as a friend, do you?"  The look on her face was mostly unreadable.  Surprise was there, but uncertainness warred with softness so that it was hard to tell exactly what she was thinking.  Certainly Karen was not making this easy on him.