Privately, she isn't surprised. 'Kind' isn't a word for someone so huddled-up-inside looking. But he hasn't told her to go away, and that may be something.

"Purrrrhaps you'rre something else interresting." The pun slips out almost by accident. She's really getting too old for those if she wants to be taken...seriously...by whom? Once she thinks about it, she doesn't know.