"Oh. Okay. That's -" That was probably supposed to be a compliment. Louise should accept it. "Thank you. Okay. You know that you're giving me strange ideas about contact with painters right?"
She bites her bottom lip. "I can never contact one after you again, and I haven't even seen your work. You're an ..experience." Too much? Not enough? She would never know. "Either way, good luck with that letter?"