A flattered, gratified smile spreads across Maggie's face at that answer. Being the highlight of anyone's week is a pleasant thing.

"I hold my own pretty well without a translator," Maggie protests amiably, "though I'd hardly turn down your company. I've had to pick up the vocabulary, and a knack for analyzing results and projections. I can understand big pictures on my own, and I pare down the projects I see to the ones that seem worth looking into by people who actually know what they're doing. I just play occasional figurehead."