No, no, that was quite all right. The number alone caught her off guard, and she looked at him again, perhaps dumbfounded, a moment before she said simply, "ah," with no idea how to proceed. People still had that many children?

Ah, and she was keeping him from his food. She relented into silence, her shoulders still touching the wall behind them, her hands folded comfortably in front of her. There wasn't really anyone for her to recognize but she liked to watch people from a distance, and this seemed ideal for it.