Suitors? Not have to work? Right. Elle kind of stared at him a bit, "Uh.. nope, I don't actually.." but she could think about that later. "What time period are you from anyway?"
Honestly she meant it as a joke, but it wasn't like she didn't know time travel was possible. It obviously was, even here. And he obviously wasn't from this time period. Or else his parents were seriously conservative.