"You're without a label, together," he said, the sarcasm thick against his tongue. "You two are something so novel, there is yet a name to be conceived for it?"

Chilton would have harped on about that, too, swept by his indulgent tangent -- but he thought about what else Gideon had said. That he didn't see anything, while looking into Danger's eyes. The statement could be interpreted in a multitude of ways, of course, and it was more likely that Gideon chose to speak literally (she was more often than not a robot, after all), but Chilton seized upon that opportunity.

"She might misinterpret the relations you two have," he mused, aloud and grandly. "If you don't see any future, in her gaze."