“Is everything okay, Eden?” Ian asked politely. “Have you finished shopping?” 

“-Yes, thank you.”

Eden hesitated for a moment between politeness and frankness.

“But I can't help but think that this is all totally extravagant.”

“Didn't you find it funny?”

She looked up from her cup, and she did not know if her lack of enthusiasm annoyed or amused him greatly.

“No.”

“-I'm not interested in frivolities” she thought. But her fundamental honesty eventually prevailed.

“I mean... Yes, a little bit. It's very nice to choose pretty things.”

She felt herself blush a little. Ian must have noticed, because the small cheerful wrinkles reappeared at the corner of his doe...