Having gone the entire visit without running into a single person, Charlie's a little surprised to find himself faced with conversation the second he stops long enough to actually pull down a book. Charlie raises his eyebrows at the other man and turns the novel in his hands.

"I appreciate the warning, but I've read it." He taps where the title's emblazoned on the dust jacket. "With a title like that I don't know how Dicken's didn't think that maybe he was setting people up for disappointment." But maybe that was the point? Oh, how meta.