It took me longer than usual to get this far in the paper today, since there was something on the first page I needed to write them about.

So you beat me to it. Today, Julia looks like Shannon the teenager with Down's syndrome (shown as a sympathetic character but not a sexual one), or like one of Mike's landladies (ditto). The writing was on the wall, so to speak, before the dialogue was added.

Andrew wasn't pining until he saw the handsome Mason escorting her, either. Which sort of makes it worse.