Well, he didn't mean opening up the couch, but his position on it, but that had all been pretty poorly written in general.

"Pretty happy day all around, then, it sounds like," he noted. "Good to hear about the bees, though, I should go up and say hi to them before I head into work tomorrow. And the book?"

As he asked, he craned his neck to have a closer look at what it might be to tell him more about what she'd been reading.