You don't understand. If I am gone, there will be repercussions. [Though the idea of being away from the professor is appealing, she has her suspicions about what happens to researchers who displease him. However, she allows herself to enjoy the thought of a vacation from him, tentatively.]
It is the work of Professor Gast and Professor Hojo. [Now she is fairly sure that she is not being observed; this will test it. If the professor heard her say that, he surely would not allow it to pass unchallenged, and it pleases her to list Professor Gast first, although he left the project.]
Romance? [A slight pause, then understanding.] You mean mating rituals. Anthropology. [She gives a faint, patronizing oh, soft sciences smile.] In such a behavioral study, the researcher most likely would not interact a great deal with her subjects. [Then she frowns.] I question the wisdom of including a juvenile female in a study of mating rituals. I am not sexually mature.
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It is the work of Professor Gast and Professor Hojo. [Now she is fairly sure that she is not being observed; this will test it. If the professor heard her say that, he surely would not allow it to pass unchallenged, and it pleases her to list Professor Gast first, although he left the project.]
Romance? [A slight pause, then understanding.] You mean mating rituals. Anthropology. [She gives a faint, patronizing oh, soft sciences smile.] In such a behavioral study, the researcher most likely would not interact a great deal with her subjects. [Then she frowns.] I question the wisdom of including a juvenile female in a study of mating rituals. I am not sexually mature.