"I'll handle it," she says firmly. She doesn't like how people take an interest in her relationships, but she has long been resigned to the fact that it happens. "You can do things without me - but I hope you'll come visit the real world now and again."

Lisa thinks she might go for youth and immortality, if it was offered. There's so much left to do, and she's getting older. No matter how she builds her company it will change without her. It might lose its way. But it's not an option, and even if her husband outlives her into perpetuity - a prospect which does make her feel uncomfortably small and insignificant - he doesn't have the temperament to take her role in it.

"Is that so? Wasn't he terrible with music?" Lisa has had just a little to do with the man. While they haven't hit it off and she knows he isn't fond of her, she also knows that compared to her brother Teagan she seems friendly and personable.