" Parker: When can you start?
Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas.
Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached.
Rainie: Thomas is a cat. "

― Catherine Anderson , Star Bright (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan, #9)