"That's true," Karen says of his first point, half-teasing. Darrow is full of interesting people, but at the very least, she wouldn't say Tony is less interesting than any of them. It's been fascinating, in a sense, getting to know the real man, at least as much as anyone does, and not just the figure. That he helped her when she so badly needed it does a little in that regard, but there's more to it than that, too. She likes him, plain and simple, thinks maybe there's an extent to which they understand each other, and not just because they come from the same place.

At his question, she just manages to fight off the instinct to blush. It's still so new that she's not used to talking about it, but she doesn't want to just set herself up to be teased, even if that may or may not be inevitable anyway. "And his name is John. We've known each other since he got here, actually, back last summer."