Rosie smiles, faint but pleased, at the light brush of his thumb against her finger--accidental as she's sure it had been.

"Oh, I was mostly thinking of modern conveniences, really," she says, shaking her head a little as he looks at her. She really ought to have phrased it less dramatically. "Automobiles, or the fact that back home we listen to the radio and watch television or go to the cinema, or fly to foreign places in aeroplanes. Things that people here who've come from far in the past, or from different worlds without any of those things, wouldn't know anything about."

Rosie looks down, studying the instruction booklet in her lap. "Silly things like that."