"Who said I was antagonizing?" he asked, getting up and going somewhere where he wasn't going to be around snooty people. "I was being serious," he said as he walked away and began to look at the books on his own.

Which was true. Yeah, he had been pissed at the British guy for being so rude, but he actually had been curious. But if people wanted to judge him, he'd let them miss out. It wasn't like he wasn't used to it already.