[T]he new wifelets [androids] couldn't enjoy the taste of food, despite being programmed to be perfect cooks. The wifelets were nonetheless programmed to comment about the food they cooked. While eating with their owner, they would occasionally pause and say reflectively, Perhaps I should have put in a bit more salt, or, I might have overdone the potatoes just a little. Of course this was never true, but it added to the authenticity of a meal.

Suddenly the Syracusans manned their ships and again bore down upon them; the Athenians, in great disorder and most of them fasting, hurried on board, and with considerable difficulty got under weigh.

The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.

On their wedding night they coupled nine times.