You're quite right. Besides— it would hardly be the first time two people of the opposite sex became friends.
[Really, there's nothing to raise any eyebrows over, is there? It's not as though anyone else would know anything about how they had met, or the fumbling it took to get to this point. There may still be a bit of fumbling ahead, but he does feel they're pointed in the right direction.]
It's not as though anyone has ever given a second thought to my friendship with Dr. Prescott.
[Possibly because of their apparent age difference, though that seems terribly small-minded.]
Perhaps we needn't worry quite as much as we have been.
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[Really, there's nothing to raise any eyebrows over, is there? It's not as though anyone else would know anything about how they had met, or the fumbling it took to get to this point. There may still be a bit of fumbling ahead, but he does feel they're pointed in the right direction.]
It's not as though anyone has ever given a second thought to my friendship with Dr. Prescott.
[Possibly because of their apparent age difference, though that seems terribly small-minded.]
Perhaps we needn't worry quite as much as we have been.