Luckily he has a good heart and an attractive physique. [He's joking, of course, there's more than just that to Jonathan. But sometimes it feels like there isn't when he does something absolutely ridiculous.
Golden retriever is absolutely the correct thing to compare him to.]
I suppose I will have to work myself up to being allowed to say as such. [He's absolutely messing with her now, merely humming to himself in amusement before taking another sip of the tea.]
But I shouldn't tarnish a dignified woman such as you, no?
It isn't tarnishing, it's education, isn't it? Besides, I'm certain I've heard worse in the hospital. Injured people are often bemoaning in one shade of blue or another. You will have to elucidate me.
[He freezes when he hears that emphasis on the word, running over how the hell she'd know about that until...
Of course he did.]
It's been a long time since then, who knows if I still have it in me. [He'll just play it off as if it hasn't been only a couple of months at most. Even if he's hiding a grin behind that tea cup.]
Do you know how dangerous it makes you when one considers how much you must know of anatomy and how the human body works? It's almost unfair if I didn't know that there's certain things you absolutely wouldn't be aware of in a clinical setting.
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Golden retriever is absolutely the correct thing to compare him to.]
I suppose I will have to work myself up to being allowed to say as such. [He's absolutely messing with her now, merely humming to himself in amusement before taking another sip of the tea.]
But I shouldn't tarnish a dignified woman such as you, no?
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[Oh yes, she's heard the story of the manor.]
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Of course he did.]
It's been a long time since then, who knows if I still have it in me. [He'll just play it off as if it hasn't been only a couple of months at most. Even if he's hiding a grin behind that tea cup.]
Do you know how dangerous it makes you when one considers how much you must know of anatomy and how the human body works? It's almost unfair if I didn't know that there's certain things you absolutely wouldn't be aware of in a clinical setting.
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[That was mostly true, save the fact she could and would give an unsuspecting person a tongue lashing for being rude.]
Now, what wouldn't I be aware of?