"Ready?"
"Uh—ready."
"Well?"
"Well, what, Mr. Gorka?"
"What would you like me to talk about?"
"Oh, anything."
"Please. As the ad read, my universal experience—is universal. Literally. You'll have to be more specific."
"Well, why don't you tell me about some of your far travels? Unfortunately, while I've done a lot of reading, I haven't been to all the places I would have liked—"
"Good enough. You know, of course, how frigid Deneb VII is?"
Matilda said, "Beg pardon?"