She doesn’t have a speech ready, this has come like a bolt from the blue, but how different it is from what ordinarily happens to her, how deeply kind and mad and courageous of him to come out with something like this now – and yet, despite her cynical character and her firm belief that she doesn’t care for these things, so long as he has truly understood what he wants and has noted what a monster she is, then she can’t really see why she wouldn’t say, with all her heart and with immense fear and gratitude, yes, yes, yes.
