Sentence:  Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates , I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect , to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom , later , in the privacy of our bunks , we would <WSD>think</WSD> in terms of the most elaborate romance . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments