Possible Clues:

• Story; member of family
• In the family way? That would be telling, perhaps
• Funny Oriental cousin?
• Account for Oriental's agitation
• In the telling, later on, let slip about one
• Later on, forcing one into telling it
• In the family way? That'd be telling, perhaps
• Right transport connection
• Story from eg Uncle Remus?
• Telling Auntie?