"Ah, you call this summer?" She can tease and flirt back, can Kate Kelly. Three older brothers for teasing, and then she was the local beauty since the age of twelve. She thinks this man doesn't mean it, not seriously, but it makes her feel a little like herself again. A little normal.

"Summer's when it's a hundred in the shade. This is just spring."

She doesn't say: I won't be decent wearing anything else here while my things dry. For one reason, it's not true, but mostly, there's a difference between social charming and anything more and she worries that mentioning that will be seen as more.