Tony felt he would at the least need to get through this drink before he started taking any more clothes off for anyone, but he was starting to get a sense of why so many felt comfortable with this artist. He started to laugh at Steven's bold admission that he had made his own use of an old profession, but it stopped being so funny when Tony realized just how bold it wasn't; Steven really paid these women to draw them.
Sitting back again, this time settling in his cushions with his glass in hand without any further intent to monopolize the sketchbook, Tony prompted, "And yet you leave her behind to travel across an entire ocean." Tony hadn't missed the past tense. It was a big trip for a man who didn't even claim the title of an artist. Either his favourite lady had pushed Steven away, or he expected something greater in America.