In ‘Worlds away’ W.V.Quine attempts to shew that possible worlds, unlike times, cannot provide robust continuity conditions for the sort of ordinary objects that we want to talk about. Quine thinks of individuals as ‘worms’ constructed as strings of events over times and worlds. Quine appeared to reject de re modality because he thought that no robust de re/de dicto distinction could be made without giving up the claim that all modality is a conceptual matter. I have tried to shew that the ‘worm’ theory of individuals enables a de re/de dicto distinction to be defended without having to give up this claim.