Discovering: Chris Knox - 'Not Given Lightly'

When he stared off into space, eyes darting about like fireflies, and didn't say a word for a moment that lazily stretched itself like a cat, that was when she worked hard at pretending the silence didn't bother her a single bit.

That was what he did when he was thinking. (So she stared off on her own, thinking about what he might be thinking of.)

When he spoke, he said things that sounded too good to be true.

So she took them as false.