She told him (or, rather, told someone else to tell him) "Thanks for caring". Of course, Busiek's story ended with her seemingly off to do something different (his suffocating captions told us she wasn't going back into the organized crime business) - then nobody used her for 7-8 years, and she reappeared in her classic incarnation (though, since she's not exactly right in the head, backsliding isn't a big stretch).