Will Siobhan go out with me tonight?' And the professor said, very derisively, 'No.' So the boy, thinking himself clever, asked me where I'd like to have dinner, and I said I'd tell him later."

Her teeth flashed as she spoke.
"After class, I asked the professor why he'd answered 'no' with such certainty. Do you know what he said?"

"What?"

"He said, 'Because you're having dinner with me.' And that was the night I started dating Professor Brown.

Auteur: Leah Raeder