She'd been prepared for her decision to be the end of it - had expected that, for both the obvious reasons and because ultimately expecting someone to leave is her norm - and she finds herself slightly less prepared to make sense of her compromise. Not displeased, just unsure of the right move; that's about her norm, too, in its way.

She's got time to figure these things out - she isn't ready now, she knows that - but it lends a surreality to an already strange conversation.

"Aren't you?" she says, at length, guileless in quietly figuring that one out.