All he wanted to talk about was technology, which wouldn't help Nell in 
figuring out whether he was a human or a machine. "Why don't you pick your own 
lock," she responded, "and come and rescue me? I am just a poor helpless 
young
thing all alone in the world, and so scared and lonely, and you seem so brave 
and heroic; your story really is quite romantic, and I cannot wait to see how 
it all comes out now that our fates have become intertwined."