"I suppose we'll have to see how things go," says Adaline, padding towards the kitchen in her stockinged feet. "There's beer or I think I have scotch, but only a little."

She lived in San Francisco for long enough that the word "queer" doesn't ruffle her but it does paint a very particular picture. She wonders whether it means the same thing when he says it.

"I'm very difficult to shock," she says.