He was ready to like anything which was strikingly different from Aunt Caroline....
One small drop--two medium-sized drops--one big drop....

He wondered when he would know his young nurse well enough to call her by her first name?
(Prefixed by "miss," perhaps.) "Desire"-- it was a rather charming name.

How old would she be, he wondered; twenty?
There were times when she looked even younger than twenty.

But he had to confess that she never acted like it.

At least she did not act as he had believed girls of twenty are accustomed to act.