"Thank you," she nodded, saying it with the exact same tone and alacrity that she had said the other few words.

It is marvelously the only subject in which she doesn't look to read people. And in which she has stopped trying to read herself in.

It is.

It is that simple. And that inevitable.

"And the two of you? Are you--?" It was the slightest question turn, and nor even the most graceful, but it was away from that momentary subject and that was better to her confusion sometimes.