She took her time responding. Not because she was deliberately trying to be difficult, but because she really didn't know exactly how to form anything that rose to mind into words that weren't dramatically embarrassing. "Theodore. That's not 'neverminding'," she pointed out and hoped that he'd leave it there. She chanced the moment to look at him. Wait. Bad move. "But if you have to know," she heard herself begin, "It's just that what I was going to say was stupid and didn't really make much sense, kind of like what I'm saying right now. And you know what? It'd be really nice of you to say, 'Hey, Demelza? Shut up' right about now - because that'd just make this whole conversation that much less painful."
"And," she finally managed to get herself to pause and took this as an opportunity to rub her head. "You ask way too many questions."