She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.

— The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson (Millennium, #1) (Page 364)