It seemed like she had, for a variety of reasons. Some not as obvious as others - he'd just been talking about the important of signs, after all.

"What? Oh, this?" He lifts up the book. It's some kind of thick, musty tome, with yellowed pages. A moment later he murmurs, seemingly to the book itself: "Shh. Be cool. Just let me talk to her."

"This is Tomie!" he says to her. "He's a good friend of mine."