"The politicians these days are better ignored and tolerated than anything else," Lucy agrees with a twist of her lips. Since traveling with the Lifeboat team, she's lost track of who's in charge of what, sometimes forgetting that she is back in present time and thinking someone like Truman or Kennedy or Washington was in charge.

"Lincoln's about the only one I feel like that about anyway," she tells him, shrugging. "There's a lot of interesting figures in history but none of them that I...admire in the way that I admire Lincoln."

His brother wasn't bad either. She wonders if that, as he went through time, Robert remembered her. "Anyway, talking about politics is generally frowned upon because it's so divisive. That and religion, as far as I know."