[She stirs steadily as the batter evens out.]

When we first met, I said it didn't cost me anything to be nice to you. Since then, I've learned that you're interesting company, more perceptive than most people I talk to, and you have a wonky gear shift in your brain on the topic of family where somebody stuck a wrench when you were too young to stop them.

So I care enough to want to meddle. It still doesn't cost me much.