"I traveled more when I was younger. It's an unfortunate truth of my work that the more experienced you are, the less you get out of the office." If she sounds wistful, it's illusory. She does miss the field, but she made the decision for the right reasons and she doesn't regret it.

"Is that the tea house you had in mind?" Joan gestures with a tilt of her head and lift of her brows to a standalone building on the other side of the street and up half a block.