"Huh," she says, and resists the urge to give him a quick lesson on expressing his ideas with comprehensible clarity. If he hasn't learnt it by now - how old is he, anyway? - then he's probably not going to.

"Stay here tonight, okay?"

Paaaauuuse.

"No sex. No sex, ever. I promised the doc a night off and I don't trust you to go back to your own room."