"I'm standing my ground on that, by the way," Annie assured him, standing back up so she could wriggle out of all her various layers of tulle. "There are ways to market lollipops without my having to demonstrate. But no -- the marketing guys went home awhile ago. Maeve wanted to talk, like, strategy and stuff."

It was kind of weird (in a nice way.) She'd only had like three drinks during the whole course of the conversation, too.