"Oh, yes. It is chilly outside." Thus, the tea. "I have been hoping for warmer temperatures. I would like to make a garden outside if I could." The greenhouses are beautiful, but they are not hers. She would stake out a small area near the lake, unlikely to be stepped on, and start something there.

"If that is allowed." She hasn't been here long enough to know how the climate changes, but assumes that it won't be this cold all the time.

Perhaps that assumption is faulty.