If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.

Her appearance was extremely neat. Her dark brown hair laid neatly upon either side of a high fair brow — and Time had kindly refused to frosten one single thread of it.

All runs were made at the Pico dos Dias Observatory, Brazil. We used the software called Platform for Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically (PRAIA) to minimise (digital coronography) the influence of the scattered light of Uranus on the astrometric measurements and to determine accurate positions of the main satellites.

I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.