She listened attentively to his answers as she stood with her back to him, looking at the decorations in their room. It would almost seem she was ignoring him, but her body language suggested she was listening intently, taking note of his presence.
When her companion asked his fifth question, she turned her head to look at him over her right shoulder, still wrapped in her bathing gown.
"My reasons for all this. Well, one might say I am doing this for the sake of politics and business - but, the terms of our meeting clearly denied those two matters - thus, this is all primarily out of my own curiosity, Mister Doe. You offer me a different perspective. I find our differences amusing and interesting."
She slowly stepped her bare feet over the carpet in the room and turned her body towards him. She looked into his eyes again. Again it took several long seconds before she resumed her carefully articulated speech.
"I like to encourage interesting personalities to ask spontaneous questions - it suggests something about how the person thinks, does it not? For example, your first question said it quite clearly - you are still on the edge, wondering about my motivations."
"There was a sense of sentiment and melancholy in the second question. I know that you are ruthless, but you can still feel something, and all those disappointments you have experienced so far make you more inclined to feel such feelings."
"The third question suggests to me that whatever situation you are in - somewhere in the corner of your mind you are still thinking about your role, your movement and your organization."
"The fourth and fifth questions are personal, about what you are missing from your past, present and inevitably your coming future. Your demons. I do wonder whether you will be able to beat them one day."
She paused in her monologue for a moment to take a sip from her glass of water and raised it to eye level so she could look at him through the water.
"There are no big revelations, I am well aware, but that is to be expected after all those deep and thoughtful conversations we have had before this moment. But it is certainly not a useless thought exercise. Would you be interested in my spontaneous questions as well, Mister Doe, or would you like to converse about something else entirely?"
