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Henry
When you have your travel dates set, please send them over. I’ll arrange for a car to pick you up and bring you directly to my place.
Lucy
Thank you! That’s a very kind gesture, but I can rent a car and drive myself.
Henry
If we want the world to think you are with me, the most romantic man to ever walk the Earth, that man wouldn’t make the woman he is courting drive herself.
Lucy
I believe the man you speak of would pick up his love himself from the airport. He would not want to be without her for another moment.
Henry
If you are already concerned you are going to miss me that much, you just have to ask, and I will gladly come pick you up myself.
Lucy
Sure, you think that.
If that is all for this evening, I have a book to get back to…
Henry
As do I.
In my reply, I send a photo ofNorthanger Abbeysitting on my table next to me.
Lucy
Is that a stock photo you found on the Internet?
Well, now she is forcing my hand. I need to send a photo of me holding it. I check myself in the camera on my phone. It’s not too bad, my glasses are on and my hair isn’t too out of place. Some may even say I look sexy, and I would agree. This is the first “selfie” I’ve taken. It is a very awkward process, especially if you are trying to hold something while doing it. When it’s done, I inspect the photo quickly and hit send.
Lucy responds with a photo of her e-reader withNorthanger Abbeyopen on a surface I recognize as her loveseat with the striped blanket next to it.
Henry
How can I be sure that it isn’t a stock photo from the Internet? Have you even read that book?
Lucy
You know it’s not and that I have. I could probably recite most of it from memory.
Henry
How would I know that?
There is only one way I could know for sure you are reading that book tonight.
Lucy
I’m not sending you a photo of me just so you can ogle at it all night.
Henry
