He accepts the offer of another book after the first, and another, and another. He says that he does not mind if James joins his picnic. He gets better at concealing his despair, but never good enough to actually succeed, at least not in hiding it from the king. He does not ever quite get into a bad enough mood to be cruel to her, but there are a few times when she shows up and he refuses to speak at all.
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He accepts the offer of another book after the first, and another, and another. He says that he does not mind if James joins his picnic. He gets better at concealing his despair, but never good enough to actually succeed, at least not in hiding it from the king. He does not ever quite get into a bad enough mood to be cruel to her, but there are a few times when she shows up and he refuses to speak at all.