"Dark blue."
He picked up a fat volume. "Mysterious Psychic Forces. Know this tome?"
"Oh yes, indeed! It's wonderfully interesting."
"I choose it! This color scheme simplifies things. Now, here's another—The Dual Personality. How's that?"
"Um! Well—pretty good."
"Dual Personality to the rear. Here's a brown book—Metaphysical Phenomena."
"That's a good one, too."
"I'm sorry they didn't bind it in blue—and here's a measly, yellow, paper-bound book in some foreign language—Italian, I guess, author, Morselli."
"Oh, that's a book I want to read. Let me take it?"
"Do you read Italian?"