The Love Lottery

Rex Allerton:
What do you do?

Jane Dubois:
I am a mathematician.

Rex Allerton:
Teehee, you're what?

Jane Dubois:
I see what you mean. It's improbable, isn't it?

Rex Allerton:
No, I'm sorry. No, I didn't mean to...

Jane Dubois:
No, no. It's quite alright. Hardly anyone believes me at first but when I multiply a few 10 digit numbers and give them the cube root for a few more, they come around.

Rex Allerton:
You do all that?

Jane Dubois:
And more, Smithy, and more.

Rex Allerton:
Look this may be my last night in Tremaggio. Will you have dinner with me?

Jane Dubois:
Of course! I've been sitting in this wet suit waiting for you to speak up. Come around at 8:30. We'll do some compound fractions before dinner.

Jane Dubois:
Little else remains to be told. While other little girls were rolling hoops or playing games with little boys, I was at home, contentedly finding the hypotenuse of this or that, letting x equal all sort of things. Before you could find the cube root of 9, I was a well-known genius.

Rex Allerton:
You're quite a mathematician, aren't you?

Jane Dubois:
It's a living.