[Alex eventually gets there, because you know, her show but sometimes she tends to do it a fair amount anyway. At least she's not as bad about it as Nic, and she just grins when he mentions his wife trying to get to take lessons.]

Yeah, it's Richard's thing. But I drag him around enough places and make him do enough things that he hates so I'm probably lucky and getting off easy with just rowing. I expect that if there were a lot of annoying science conventions and talks, he'd be dragging me to those too.

[The smile definitely says that Alex wouldn't mind that too much, but there were things she prefers anyway.

But she's gonna offer him a hand:]

Alex Reagan. Nice to meet you.