"Ooh I know so!' he agrees, a smile that's impossibly wide. He means it too, at least in his own way.

"Yes well I am the expert, after all."

Perhaps not, but you'd never think it with the way he gives his bowtie a tweak. It's good though, for as much as he might be cheering her, it's doing all that and more for him too. He needs this, because for so long there's been nothing but sadness in those old hearts.