"Unfortunate," said Tarrant, though he hadn't really been expecting otherwise. That would have been much too easy. His tone was a little disappointed, though. He would have thought that a man with a nice library like the Doctor's would have been a little more all-encompassing in the type of books he'd chosen to acquire. Dramatic sigh.

"But I suppose you're right. The pursuit of knowledge can be as rewarding as the end result. If not more so." Tarrant was a pretty fair hand at pursuit himself. In a manner of speaking.