Of course the talk of the bathroom would unsettle her, and Klaus was going to chalk her blushing and paling off to that. But it was one of the most important technological advances he could think of. Along with artificial gravity, or this stay on a space station (it still sounded ridiculous) would have been quite different.

"The waterfall room's called a shower," he told her, smiling slightly. Perhaps a little condescendingly, but not meanly. "The washbasin's a sink. And I do wish we had bathtubs." Bathtubs were so very decadent.