"I love Italian food," Mina assures him as she buttons her overcoat.

She feels more out of control than she has in lifetimes. There are very few situations in which she's not two or three steps ahead of everyone else in the room -- a side-effect of her age and the fact that she's been increasingly tending towards 'control freak' (in Galvin's words) since the loss of her sight. This, however, is rather nice, yielding the lead of the situation to her husband...