"I can go check," Jean said, getting up to go peek her head in the kitchen. There wasn't any but it wasn't difficult to start a kettle on the boil even if the method was a little different than the one she'd been used to back home. Once she'd gotten it started, she came back and settled in her chair.

"There wasn't hot water but I went ahead and started it," Jean said. "So we'll have tea pretty soon. It's been kind of a pain to learn how to use this old fashioned stuff, though. I never thought I would miss regular stoves and stuff. And microwaves."