Oh, no, but that was interesting. Smart of him, to try not to look at her, but it did so hinder China learning what she wanted to.

"My name is China Sorrows," she said, a name for a name, and there was something about the way she said it that implied that bowing was an appropriate response. She smiled, then, all graciousness and light. "It's a pleasure to meet you, my dear. You were saying, about an experiment?"

That tone she kept idle, only curious, declining to betray exactly how interested she was in something he was evidently trying to hide.