I might remind his brother, if he isn't careful.

( little tattle-tale that she is unrepentant for being. )

I - well, I don't know the same. I don't know his mind, entirely, but mine is - I like him very well. I worried, a little, that he wouldn't have been as inclined if there weren't someone to amusingly spite, but he said that isn't so.

( and it all sprang from her determination not to lose his attention, that's not irrelevant. )