"Naw," she said, quietly, so that her voice wouldn't echo off the walls. "Well, not nice in that way anyway. I'm stayin' away from them until I want to marry." When was that? It was vaguely there in the future, but Anne's mind was focused on finding ways to help her sister. She couldn't be happily married before she had helped Alice, she was sure. "Do you want to go the the beach?"