"It has... been an adjustment, but not an unpleasant one, on the whole. People wear less clothes, and are generally less formal, and have broader ideas about what is and is not acceptable in polite society. I find it refreshing, myself."

Automatically he glances down at his leg, and his grip tightens a little on the handle of his cane. "Injury," Watson says. "I was in the army, when I was a younger man. It was the end of a promising career."