[she waits, patient and simply moving about the room in eyesight, boiling water for tea and putting away what she got while she was out. and when he's together, when he wants to speak, then she turns to him.]

They do that - I've noticed it happening with frequency in the club I work at. Not out of maliciousness, but something about the mind being altered for freedom, or just a way of being. What exactly did you feel?

[probably not an unexpected question to come from a doctor.]