Her eagerness does pull a smile out of him. It is the reaction he had been expecting, and certainly what he had been hoping for.

"I am curious about our displaced guests," he begins, elbows braced on the table and hands clasped. "You have been sharing close quarters with them for some months now, and perhaps have had greater opportunity to come to know their habits and personalities than I myself have.

"How do you believe we are faring in managing the security of all our guests?"