If Helena were to be honest, this lab wasn't her own, it still belonged to Tony. She was simply borrowing it for the time being. She'd prefer having her own lab, or at least a room in her own house where she could perform such things. But she didn't have her house here, so she would make this lab hers however she could while she was using it. Working on other people's generosity was not new to her, she'd done so practically her entire life before she'd been Bronzed. First her father for encouraging her to learn what she wanted, then her various lovers and friends sharing their knowledge with her.
Even though it was not meant as flattery, Helena couldn't help but smile as though it was. "Have I? Then I must truly have your expectations high for today's venture, do I not?" Brushing some of the loose tendrils of hair behind an ear she glanced over at the furnace she had her sample batch in before looking back at Bruce. "You have piqued my interest as well. It has been a long since I have been able to speak with another scientist in such a manner." Despite the fact she'd been in the modern world for about a year, a little longer than that all together, Helena was still a proper Victorian woman in the way she handled herself. Well, not that she'd ever behaved as a Victorian woman was expected to back then, except in the instances when she'd had to, but that was beside the point. She had manners and a way of speaking and doing things that were still deeply entrenched within the 19th Century. But manners did get one far, just like flattery and intelligence did.