[She hadn't know the other him well enough to make that sort of judgement, so even if she hadn't been aware he was a different Tony, the changes wouldn't have fazed her much.]

Do you really have time for this? [But okay. She at least doesn't get the impression he doesn't have the attention to spare.] Back home, I'm a cellular biologist with a university. A lot of what I do is protein and polynucleotide synthesis with medical applications. Here...

[Huff.] I'm supposed to be helping design hazmat suits. Unlike some people, I'm not mastering an entirely separate field of science in a week, so you can imagine that that's not going too well. [If it had been about building protection into the body itself, she would have been in business. Or quit. Probably quit.]