[The same as anyone, she laughs when she's amused, or when she means to mock; often deriving a laughing kind of pleasure from the act of mockery itself. It's immaterial, whether the sound disquiets and sends shivers. She cannot speak as to his sensitivities. He's doing well to hide them.]
Help.
[The word escapes her mouth in such a tentative and testing tone, as though she's never heard it before, and she has no idea what it might mean.]
You think highly of yourself.
[Or little of the others, whichever. It's another plainly apparent observation, but at least she's paying attention. Hasn't bored her to death yet.]
I shall have to consider it.
[She doesn't deal in polite or gentle discouragement. She wouldn't pretend to weigh something that wasn't worth thought, and definitely not to spare his pride. She'd have no qualms about rejecting this outright, if that was what she wanted. Hence: yes is yes, no is no, and later truly does mean later. He won't have anything from her, if he insists too soon. She's asserting her superiority a little.]
no subject
Help.
[The word escapes her mouth in such a tentative and testing tone, as though she's never heard it before, and she has no idea what it might mean.]
You think highly of yourself.
[Or little of the others, whichever. It's another plainly apparent observation, but at least she's paying attention. Hasn't bored her to death yet.]
I shall have to consider it.
[She doesn't deal in polite or gentle discouragement. She wouldn't pretend to weigh something that wasn't worth thought, and definitely not to spare his pride. She'd have no qualms about rejecting this outright, if that was what she wanted. Hence: yes is yes, no is no, and later truly does mean later. He won't have anything from her, if he insists too soon. She's asserting her superiority a little.]