Her temper felt less bad and her nerves less on edge.
'You are very kind,' she said, after a little while.

'It is very good of you to have thought about me like that.

And you do think, at all events, that I am half alive.

You think I have wants, even if I have no purposes.' 'Yes, that's it.

Wants, not purposes; though what they are I can't find out.' She was willing to satisfy his curiosity.