[Oh. That's . . . certainly a tone, isn't it, and she pauses, taken aback by it for half a moment. There's color on her cheeks, not so much embarrassed as simply pleased, as heat floods throughout her body.

Hmm.]

I'm not your anything, Mr. Lehnsherr. You'd do well to remember that.

[She raises an eyebrow, and then adds lightly:]

One question in order to see if you were interesting or not. Now that you are, it would be foolish not to ask you any number of questions.

Shall I offer you an even exchange?