[She opens her mouth to say 'but I don't have anything for you' except she doesn't. Because she can just hear him brushing it off. Instead, she starts mentally thinking of something anyway.]
[The mention of reading turns her attention to the book, which she looks down at almost hungrily. Her brain is already spinning along that vein, so much so that it only barely registers that he said "we" in conjecture with "baking a cake."] Okay. Do you want to take the hat?
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[The mention of reading turns her attention to the book, which she looks down at almost hungrily. Her brain is already spinning along that vein, so much so that it only barely registers that he said "we" in conjecture with "baking a cake."] Okay. Do you want to take the hat?
[Just in case??]