She looks at it for a moment. "Well, Rosie, that's not a bad name, if it's short for something. Like Roxanne, you know, like that song by the Police. I think it's rather clever, then," she adds, because Roxanne put on the red light, and all right, maybe Annie is missing that it's about prostitution, really, but who cares?

"It's likely a better pet than any animal, isn't it?"