He does that on occasion. [ she settles in a little better, studying rose as she does so. it occurs to her that she doesn't know how much nikola has been telling people. her assumption is that rose simply knows that nikola has longevity and she'll be going on that alone. ]
We met at Oxford decades ago. He was attending; I was only allowed to audit classes. [ take a guess as to how she feels about that. ] I don't think I truly had acquired the taste until decades later.