You would have figured it out on your own. [Which he fully believes. Giving her the schematics for it was merely a bit of insurance, and, well...
But he did place his other hand lightly over hers, a small acknowledgement of the gesture.]
If anything, the whistle made us even. I... was deeply in your debt.
[After all, there could be no second guessing how deeply involved he and Rosalind had been in studying Elizabeth all those years, in working for Comstock. Who else could have even begun to understand what she could do naturally, other than the two people who had learned to do it with machines?]
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But he did place his other hand lightly over hers, a small acknowledgement of the gesture.]
If anything, the whistle made us even. I... was deeply in your debt.
[After all, there could be no second guessing how deeply involved he and Rosalind had been in studying Elizabeth all those years, in working for Comstock. Who else could have even begun to understand what she could do naturally, other than the two people who had learned to do it with machines?]