If that was the case, he shouldn’t have been imposing . . . but he could see just by the way she was standing, by the way she was looking where he was looking, she was proud of her shop and was genuinely curious about what he thought about it. She probably wanted to give him a tour of it, even though they lacked the mutual language to discuss it. He could tell fellow machinists that he had a Haas SL-40, and they’d appreciate how much better it was than the clapped-out Bridgeport mill that still got pressed into service occasionally, but that meant nothing to anybody outside the industry.