'Becoming' is an old-fashioned sort of compliment, one that she wouldn't expect to hear in Darrow, but one that would have been bandied about with more frequency back home. Even as she ducks her head in quiet pleasure, she wonders just when Thomas is from. Not so far back as her, probably, but perhaps closer to Biffy's time.
"I think we're technically on third impressions, at this point," she says, "if you count the shop and the tree lighting ceremony." Goodness knows what sort of showing she's made for herself on either occasion. 'Guffawing incredulously when asked on an outing' and 'losing her child and a 70-pound dog' aren't exactly impressive feats.
But she likes to think they at least managed to salvage the ceremony, even if it was Thomas's good humor and Saoirse's charm that did most of the heavy lifting. "You made an excellent impression with Saoirse," she says after thanking the server. "I was beginning to think we'd have to peel her off of you." She might feel a twinge of parental inadequacy on that front, but if someone like Thomas Sharpe had picked her up at that age, she probably wouldn't have been in any great hurry to be put down, either.
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"I think we're technically on third impressions, at this point," she says, "if you count the shop and the tree lighting ceremony." Goodness knows what sort of showing she's made for herself on either occasion. 'Guffawing incredulously when asked on an outing' and 'losing her child and a 70-pound dog' aren't exactly impressive feats.
But she likes to think they at least managed to salvage the ceremony, even if it was Thomas's good humor and Saoirse's charm that did most of the heavy lifting. "You made an excellent impression with Saoirse," she says after thanking the server. "I was beginning to think we'd have to peel her off of you." She might feel a twinge of parental inadequacy on that front, but if someone like Thomas Sharpe had picked her up at that age, she probably wouldn't have been in any great hurry to be put down, either.