It jibes with what everyone else says when they arrive in the more traditional way. Perhaps Peggy had been hopeful that arrival by these tubes somehow meant something different in how the people arrived here, but she's beginning to piece together a new theory.

"Not the sort of situation that might have somehow grab you and stick you in a tube, I'd imagine, this much be a terrible shock," Peggy says, not trying to be blunt, but wanting to ensure that Phryne is all right, given the inherent trauma in this moment.

"When it was me, I climbed out of a fountain, which now seems somehow more civilized."