I'm glad you like it. And oh, I don't know, nineteen twenties, I think it was. I learned the basics in the early nineteen hundreds from a very pretty kitchen maid, but I admit, education was not my intention. [Dorian laughs.] Even if I had servants again—and I haven't bothered in about half a century—even then, I would still want to know how to take care of myself. You never know when you'll have to rely on only yourself.

[He lifts a hand to indicate their current situation.] For example, when dragged up into a strange city in a strange world.