Oh no.

"He was embarrassed, but it was really Frances's fault. Anyway, so that's going to be a little behind schedule unless I can make up the time. How did you like the zoo, Dusk?"

It was really neat. The tamarins were her favorite but she liked all the animals really.

"Tamarins are cute! Which kind? Emperor? Golden?"

The fluffy ones.

"Ooh, those guys! Yeah, they look like they'd be very soft if you could pet them, don't they," says Winona.

Yeah. And they seemed really smart, too.

"They are! They're related to humans, we're both primates."

She's not sure what that means, but it sounds pretty cool.

Julie and Winona spend the rest of dinner explaining evolution!

Very cool!

It is!

Julie orders three desserts and sharing plates and everyone gets one third of each dessert.

That's cute. (She makes sure to eat all three at the same rate.)

Winona and Julie trade some of theirs after coming to conclusions about their relative interest in the apple crisp and the cheesecake.

Well see in order to share opinions she'd first have to have opinions and instead she's going to just not, so that's that. What she has is fine, anyway. (Julie and Winona are very cute, though.)

Winona is not interested enough in apple crisp, nor Julie interested enough in cheesecake, to make any insinuations about Dusk's.

They go home. Julie wants to play chess. Does Dusk want to play chess?

Dusk has no idea how to play chess but she's up for trying something new, sure.

Julie teaches her to play chess. Dusk can use cartoon pieces if that's easier.

It is, yeah. She picks it up pretty quickly.

Julie does not try very hard to beat her at first, and can step up the difficulty as Dusk gets better!

She makes a face about it when she catches on!

She's up for as much chess as Julie wants to play.

Julie stays up about an hour later than Winona with this inducement, then yawns and kisses Dusk on the head and says, "G'night, kiddo, I gotta hit the hay."

Goodnight!

She's down a little earlier again the next morning, eleven fifteen.

"Morning!" says Julie. "You feel okay being up and about this hour?"

Sleepy, but she's okay, yeah.