Not wanting to lose her nerve, Fran wasted no time in marching straight to her boss' office. As usual, she barged in with barely a knock. Maxwell looked up, surprised. "Miss Fine, I'm really rather busy here. Couldn't this wait?"
"I've just got one thing to say, and then you can go back to what you were doing," the nanny replied. "I just thought you'd like to know that I lied about Lenny last night. Nothing happened between us, and it was because the guy I'm really attracted to is you."
Max was, to say the least, stunned. He swallowed nervously. He couldn't deny he was attracted to her. He had been since the day she showed up on his doorstep selling cosmetics. Still, he was a grieving widower, and he had always thought it best to take their relationship slowly. Maxwell struggled to find a response to Miss Fine's revelation that would not get him in trouble.
As luck would have it, he was saved the trouble by one of his own children. Maggie entered the room just at that moment. She could tell there was obviously something going on between her father and Fran, but she wasn't exactly sure what. She looked back and forth between the two adults, then decided it was best just to say what was on her mind. "Uh, Fran? Could you come with me to the store?" she asked. "It's that time of the month, and I'm kind of low on supplies." Maggie gave Fran a look to make sure they both knew what kind of "supplies" she was referring to.
The nanny opened her mouth to speak, but before she could get the words out, she was interrupted. Fran was flabbergasted when her boss responded to his daughter's request. "You and I never spend enough time together. How about I take you to buy those supplies?"
"No, Dad, that's OK," Maggie replied. "I think this is more Fran's area of expertise than yours." Already the teenager was blushing at the thought of her father helping her pick out tampons.
"Nonsense," Max said. "What could be so difficult about picking up a few...supplies?" He put his arm around his daughter and walked her out of the office.
Fran watched them go in shock and frustration. "If avoiding commitment were an Olympic event, that man would win a gold medal!"