"Is that just because you like to look at it?" she asks, almost playful.

She doesn't mind accepting different treatment, for a short while, because of what she looks like, and to spare her companion the funny looks he'd undoubtedly get. Howard is very smart, and very handsome, and those two things in conjunction can take a man very far in business, she's well aware. She'd like to see that have happened when she gets back to her own time.