[He wouldn't die!! He would hide under some stairs until everyone else went away, very maturely. Either way he's already bored about being dragged into a library - how illegal, how salacious - but if Dorian's going to hold his hand and be all giddy about it, he guesses he can tolerate this.]

Hmm? Now, what is this idea of yours, I didn't ask for anything like that! [Teaching, disgusting - Manley is just a child who doesn't want to go to school. Watch him gingerly reach out his other hand to touch the spine of one of these books like it might get illegal literacy ooze on him. This is terrible...] It's certainly, definitely quite enough that one of us is having a lovely time, I assure you.