"Thank you." Her gaze drops for just a moment and then she lifts her eyes again, nodding. "Yes, please."

She surveys the crowd again. "Looks like a good turnout tonight." She's wondering if some of these people are from different cohorts--there do seem to be some people, here and there, who are older than their group.

But then she decides, that just for tonight, they could stand to not be picking at everything. That sort of goes against the whole celebrating thing, right?