He hadn’t brought it up again. She brought a new kit home, and he never asked to see what the pattern would look like. She found that she had a hard time focusing on it when he was in the house with her: she kept distracting herself with anticipation of   him   distracting   her   with questions, even just a passing comment on the work as it progressed. Even with just an interested sort of   hmm   sound. But he never did.