She stood at the window and as soon as he asked her, she turned her gaze away from the window and looked straight into his eyes. She was silent for long seconds as she watched his reactions and, in the meantime, she managed to take a sip her icy water. Only then did she decide to answer him.
"You did what your movement is doing, did you not? It was an exemplary rescue of an oppressed, common man from a totalitarian power that was trying to enslave him. Or did it have a whole other meaning, Mister Doe?"
She raised her eyebrows questioningly, seemingly not bothering to show more of her natural facial expressions. Her preternatural calm still did not leave her, however.
"But I missed one detail - what did you give that man, Mister Doe? I hope it was not a large sum of credits, because that can only help a financially illiterate person in the short term or on a direct, one-time basis. This is the main reason why rich people get rich because they know what to do with their wealth to multiply it, while others do not."