"You could learn Mandarin with me," he suggests, wrapping his arms around her waist in return, more than happy to leave the dogs and the work he's been doing to spend time with her. "Or I could teach you German. It isn't that hard and we could go at our own pace, unlike a class."

He pauses and adds, "I could teach Sam, too." At first he'd been joking, but now that he's thinking about it, it might be good for Sam to know German as well.