Chapter 47
He smiled at Laurie, who gave him an avuncular nod and offered, “You seem well this afternoon.”
“I am, I think.” He plucked up courage. “And…thank you. About the, er, advice. About, er, love, yesterday.”
And Laurie’s expression, for an instant, became far younger and far more mischievous. “Pleased to hear it. He does rather look at you as if wanting to carry you off to his trailer and feed you his—”
“Laurie!”
“Gingersnaps, dear boy. I assume he’s a fan of them. Somehow he seems the type. I haven’t the faintest idea what youwere thinking.” Sir Laurence waited just long enough for Colby to believe that this was honest innocence, and then finished, “Gingersnaps can be quite…spicy, you know. And thank you for the first-name basis.”