"I apologize, but you will have to come back. I have to do some research and I'm sure a young lady your age has more interesting things to do than watch an old man read."
He turned away from her and toward the cobbled together computer. His research was into a number of things, such as the Sentinel robots and their specifications. Not that he was quite ready to either divulge how he got the information or what he'd found out, it wasn't useful in his understanding.
"I promise to let you know as soon as I come up with something for us to try." Once again, that smile, genuine bedside manner of a man who had quite a few years of working with patients who weren't exactly of the most forthcoming kind.