At that moment, Richard's eyebrows lifted slightly and he turned his head briefly toward Penelope with an expression that communicated clearly that his father had just said something worth paying serious attention to. Penelope, who had been hanging on every fragment of the conversation she could piece together, raised her eyebrows back at him questioningly.
"You have a point, Father," Richard said, turning back to the road with renewed focus. "You actually have a very strong point, and I think you're absolutely right that this is the direction we should be going." He nodded to himself as the full logic of his father's strategy unfolded in his mind.
