He rested one elbow on the bar's top and reached...not out to her hand but just forward enough to trace the shape in the air. Trying to visualize it. It was all a little funny, to him. Odd indeed.

Hmm. The fortunes didn't sound so silly, though. Not to him. Especially not that second one -- oh, to live in a time when cliches were still de rigour.

However, all he takes out of this verbally is: "But surely you've not been to China!"