"Yeah, you did," said Beau, "but it's cool. Sometimes I like get distracted and miss out on details so it's kind of not a bad idea to repeat things."

She took another bite of the apple, unsubtly suggestive enough that it would likely give any lurking squirrels some severe secondhand embarrassment.

"I mean, I wasn't that time but, you know. It's fine. Trying stuff is like . . . I'm into it."

And yet you weren't even really trying that time, were you, Beauregard?