"You know as well as I that she has her reasons," Helena replies in kind.

Once Joshua's settled, Helena gets out a book (Time Machine, as if she's going to properly follow through with her writing ideas, she needs to refresh herself on what she wrote back in the day) and sets about ignoring the horrid man in the aisle seat. (She's got the window shade down. Just because she's more comfortable with flying doesn't mean she wants to stare at the tops of clouds all afternoon.)