"Well, there are things that are yet still strange," Demelza admits with a shy smile. "I dislike the television and so we rarely have it turned on, but I do like my portable telephone, mostly because it plays music."

Abby had demonstrated how she might hook it up to a speaker in their home and so Demelza can play music when she's cooking, which she loves so very much. Such things hadn't been possible at home.

"And it's been quite useful in emergencies," she adds. "I was putting flowers on the bare graves in the cemetery when Jeremy decided he was coming and I was so far from the city, but I was able to call Ross."