"It's so nice to be with someone who doesn't look at my plate and say, 'You're not going to eat all that, are you?' "

She looked at me for a while, then at my plate.

"I can't possibly eat all of this," you think, looking at your plate.

Elliot's eyes flared, but the President was looking at his plate.

Then his father stopped too, and looked at his plate.

When he came back Nick was looking at his plate.

'I am sorry you did not have a very good meal,' he said, looking at my plate.

The way he looked at her plate said that if she wasn't, he was.

"She won't tell you," he said, looking at his plate.

And that was when she realized he wasn't even bothering to look at his plate.