That one was easy.  Raisa offered to add him more tea before refilling her brother's and then her own cup.  "I have spent my whole life in the busy crowded cities.   I am ready for a quieter kind of life.  I am not made of the thing needed for the country, but a smaller town with all the important things and social life, it is all I need.  When this came up as a possible place for our tour, I researched in on it and found it to be just the right combination of things I was looking for."