"Not a bad name," Adah commented. "Although your father's name, right, so perhaps not a good name, either. You and that traditional streak..."

And thoughts of a traditional streak got the back of Adah's brain tickling on wondering about maternity in the same way she'd been thinking about paternity practically all day. But then she was also thinking of anachronisms, of impossibilities, and it just left her sighing momentarily for the complexity that the situation seemed to inspire.