She didn't say anything for a moment, didn't move. It was a long pause, an eternity almost (at least to her), and then she nodded at him once. She was trying to figure out how to save face and struggling with it, and in the end she turned her attention to Kat, who was mewling for attention at the end of the table.
She picked the kitten up, and she rubbed her nose against the kitten's nose. "You'll send the dumbwaiter down?" she asked, not looking at him when she asked it, "once the door closes behind me?"