8: she accepts your answer but is still suspicious

Some of the tension leaves her body as she returns to her normal posture, but she’s still clearly on guard. She begins talking about the kinds of books she likes - heady literature, especially with unreliable narrators - and as the conversation continues she begins to fully relax. You ask her about her family and learn that her father runs a hedge fund and had shipped all his children off to the kind of boarding schools where he thought they’d make connections to benefit them later in life. But he was protective of his girls and had only sent them to single sex schools.

“So, of the books on the syllabus this year, what are you most excited to read?”

“I saw a play on there, ‘Miss Julie,” and I haven’t read a lot of plays so I’m interested in that one.”

“Are you familiar with the story at all?”

“No, I’ve never heard of it. What’s it about?”

“It’s about the relationship of a count’s daughter, Julie, and her father’s senior servant, Jean. It’s a classic of western theater.” You emphasize ‘relationship’ as you explain. You know she can pick up on the subtleties of conversation and are emboldened to try again now that she’s more comfortable with you.

Roll +hot.

10+: she catches the innuendo and she follows your lead

7-9: she catches the innuendo but redirects the conversation

Under 6: She misses the innuendo