"Yeah, it's Christmas." She almost asked if the flood hadn't been a clue, but he seemed intent on pretending it didn't happen and she wasn't enormously eager to contradict him. "For what little that means. You don't have any presents out there, so, I guess you weren't a good boy this year."

Okay, so maybe he'd shown up too late for anything specific but he didn't even have any of the generic stuff that some people seemed to give to everybody.