[Ford keeps the book in his hands tightly, looking between it and Fiddleford, taking a seat on his own bed so he'll be out of the way.]

I-- Books? [It occurs to him he could have been reading books on pickup lines and wooing someone this summer... but he hadn't.]

I haven't been reading anything like that! I meant what I said. You're worth more than silly pickup lines from a book. [On second thought, maybe reading pickup line tips might not have been the best idea. There's that, at least??]