"My place is in the kitchen," she said firmly.

"And there I must bide.

But I am ready to show you the way to your room, my dear, whenever you want to go." Doris bent forward impulsively and kissed her.

"You are much, much too kind to me, you and Jeff," she said.
But as soon as she was alone with Jeff her shyness returned.

She could not feel as much at ease with him in the house as in the open air.