He nodded. "Well, you're still young," he reminded her. "Lots of time to learn the rest." Tinkering and blowing stuff up? Six months ago and if she weren't sixteen and American, he'd bee hiring her for a job. "That sounds like fun."
His father hadn't been around enough between lecture tours and teaching to do much but bring him new books and such. As for girls. "There's nothing wrong with that," he defended. "She'll just have to find a boy who'll do that sort of thing for her."