"A date, Charles. I was trying to get his number. Actually, I was going to give him mine until I realized it would be embarrassing if you picked up and then I offered to give him mine. That was when the skin under my fingernails turned blue." The smile she gives him has more than a hint of bitterness to it. "But I suppose that the only man in my life is going to be you."

She can't even get a man's hand under her shirt without something going wrong.

"Have you stopped wondering or should I go on?"