"Brief but memorable is how I like nearly all of my involvement with men," came Phryne's quick response, although not as quick as it might ordinarily have been.

"Yet there are those," she allowed more slowly, gaze drawn to the battered blue book the other woman all but fondled. It piqued her curiosity, certainly, but Phryne had better manners than to snoop for snooping's sake. "With whom one wishes to append regular, or repeated, to brief and memorable."

One, in her experience. Jack. And Lin, she supposed, but that was more repeated than regular. She would tire of him if she had to spend too much time with him.

"Still, if what we're told is true and we're stuck here... well, I suppose it's best not to dwell, isn't it? At least not used to sharing his bed every night."