There's another vague gesture that explains more or less nothing, here. "I'm sort of seeing somebody who lives there? Nothing serious." Currently, as far as she knows; he's been trying to discreetly figure out if she came with anyone else this evening, and Ilde has been blithely failing to notice. "But I like it there, so..." So she goes for reasons other than Ivan, now and then; he's just the reason she first had an occasion to see it.