[ She's highly patient under certain circumstances; when under others? He would argue that she is quite impatient. It depends on the context, certainly, but occasionally other things as well. When she wants an answer from him and he is unwilling, he would argue a veritable and distinct lack of true patience, in tandem with probably a sense of stubbornness to potentially rival his own. Maybe. On a cloudy day or something.

Either way. It doesn't matter. What does matter is the way she finally starts answering his questions, be they the obvious, or ones that he was trying to be nice about and couch behind several opposing turns in a set of road directions. He's not actually sure how to process what he was just told. Anger's pretty high on the list, but his own form of anger tends to be fairly well ensconced within reasonable arguments, else it looks like the disorganized, unfettered rage that it actually pretends not to be. Luckily, at the moment, he has little energy to spare for the truthful sentiment - the falsehood of composure is far easier a thing to maintain in the thick of things after all. ] Anyone specific? Or did they just want the usual? The method of questioning provided a lot of detail to be be wanted.