[Ah, one of those kinds of girls. Probably so used to deflecting strange boys that she thinks this is another pass. Archie gives her a bit of a dry look.]

It was only good advice. Not everyone's nurse used to cast hot coals into their used bathwater every night. I remember telling her when I first read A Midsummer Night's Dream and she was aghast at the misinformation I was being fed. She gave my schoolmaster an earful after that. Lucky she only spoke Scots and he didn't.

[Not shy at all, really. Trying to get a smile out of her.]