"Oh, he's so stiff and bumpy. So darn impressed with his own correctness. And it's mostly bluff. He tried to kiss me last night."
Osterhout's face darkened for the moment, but he said: "Why not? You're only a child to him, and one of the family."
"Brotherly stuff; I know. Only it wasn't too brotherly. Well," she laughed knowingly, "I don't suppose he gets much of that sort of thing from Dee."
"Dee's a strange little person," said the doctor absently.
"She'd be my idea of nothing to be engaged to if I were a man."
Which opinion she later expressed, in slightly modified terms, to the subject of it.
"Oh, well, Jimmy understands," responded Dee negligently.
"I don't believe any man understands. I don't believe you understand anything about it yourself."
"Don't I!" muttered Dee.