The previous spin, while they were talking, landed on another win for Kate. Gene is looking at the table accusingly, as though it's deliberately mocking him. Though when it comes down to placing bets again, he does put a couple of bucks on her number, as well as spreading a few more over the black numbers.

'You never played this before?'

He doesn't know whether he's surprised or not. She seems worldly enough that she should have, but perhaps she's never been in a town where she could safely go on her own before.