Talking to girls

V comes home and instructs the maid not to let the children disturb him as he has a telephonic meeting. Mira is at home, having bunked school on account of acute ear pain. A one-day excursion to Dakshinchitra seems to have aggravated cough and phlegm, and which has percolated to her ear.

After he has finished with his conversation, he comes out of the room to see a curious Mira waiting patiently for him. 

She asks him: Where are the people you were to meet?

I met them over the phone, he tells her.

Was it a boy or a girl (for her, men and women are boys and girls), she persists.

Girl.

Oh, is that why you closed the room??!!