"Yes," he says immediately. "He won't be expecting us to follow through, and if we choose something he is not wholly familiar with, he'll believe it is something we can't give to him until the very moment we do."

Tony is so wonderfully straightforward that way.

"Any suggestions?" he asks, already thinking it over. The problem, of course, is that it is much easier to call to mind things they have tried than things they haven't.