"[Keeping my linguistics skills useful,]" she says, torn between smiling at him and rolling her eyes at the 'pretty lady'.

Of course, she says it in Japanese. Because she can. She puts in a bookmark to mind her page, and tosses it lightly onto the coffee table.

"Exercising," is what she says in English, sitting him and drawing her legs up to her chest. "And what have you found on your travels?"