And as quickly as his dark expression had come, it was gone, and he was smiling again. "Glad to hear it, Miss Serket. Some folks are just too quick to judge. You might like the class, though. Takes a smart young lady to spend her free time usin' her brain instead of gossipin' and writin' in one of those journals. And this class... Well, the more brains you have, the more you can benefit from it."