"What's best and brightest in my meetings is not here, if I might remind you," he replies patiently, with a slight sharpness to his voice all the same. "I assure you I am well-acquainted at writing with passion; but it does not seem entirely needful for a handbill." One need only look at the notebook hidden underneath the piles of paper to see that. "It is only seeing if anyone would be interested, anyhow."