That got him an actual smile, "I don't discount the Murderface line from being clever. Mina might have been crude, and blunt, but she was wily when it suited her." A pause then, realizing that he could probably guess, but wouldn't, strictly speaking, know who she was talking about, "Ah, Wilhelmina Murderface, the one from my reality."
Charlene was good at business meals, in that she seemed, somehow, to osmose her food, because it was going somewhere, but never seemed to get in the way of what she had to say, "And besides, I think concurrent generations have a leg up on their predecessors by default."