Her mouth twists and she eyes him a little like a bullfighter watching the gate right before it bursts open under the weight of an infuriated bull.

"There isn't anything between me and Steve," she says, fighting the urge to speak slowly and enunciate clearly. "He kissed me once on a very stressful day for everybody involved, and that's it. You told me to think about it, and I thought about it. I thought about it a lot. I've had a lot of time on my hands to think. Although," she points out, a little thoughtfully, "I'm not exactly working with all the necessary information. It's an incomplete dataset."