"I won't tell if you don't, so I think we're safe."

Scratching the back of his head, Bill wondered if he shouldn't tell her. All along he'd been arguing it wasn't a big deal, and in the end he decided to stick with that assessment.

"Actually, it is someone new in town. I kinda picked her up on the side of the road."

There was no 'kind of' about it, he did, but he chuckled to sell the joke.

"She's a girl, ran into a fix where she's from an' now she's here tryin' t'get back on her feet again."