Ye-yes! Hello. I...I just need some help...retrieving something. From outside? I can see it from the front window easily. It--my shawl? Could you...get it for me? [all that stiffness is getting rapidly replaced by her usual bit of fluster with a slight serving of preemptive defensiveness:] I, I know that seems silly but I wouldn't ask if I could do it myself, so...!
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she...wasn't actually expecting that.
...she probably should've expected that.
she clears her throat.]
Ye-yes! Hello. I...I just need some help...retrieving something. From outside? I can see it from the front window easily. It--my shawl? Could you...get it for me? [all that stiffness is getting rapidly replaced by her usual bit of fluster with a slight serving of preemptive defensiveness:] I, I know that seems silly but I wouldn't ask if I could do it myself, so...!