It's definitely frustrating, and while Phryne can understand the desire to hope that one's stay in a less than ideal location isn't going to be terribly long, that doesn't mean it's any less of an annoyance to hear that the villages don't have much by way of name. Especially when she'd been hoping that one or the other of the names would give her some sort of idea as to where they'd been, geographically speaking.

Still, there's nothing to be done for it. She's not about to give up on the idea of figuring out where they are, geographically speaking, but she's willing to set it aside for the time being.

"Melbourne," she answers instead, without even so much as stopping to think that Peggy might not actually be familiar with Australia. But it does go a long way to explaining the almost-familiarity of her accent, at least. "And likewise, despite the circumstances."