[And she'd gotten her hands on it and had started looking through it and could he grab it back before she read anything and realised- Wait.]

You've, ah, read it?

[Ohhh Maker. There he went again. That settled it. He was just going to start blushing whenever he saw Isabela now. It would save time, since he always did when they spoke.]

I don't get up to anything! I just meant it's boring because the, ah, the story. Isn't very good.

[Because he was reading it for the story Isabela.]