[Oh boy, enjoy that moment of a bitter laugh. But it's gone as quickly as it arrived.]

Then they'd be trying to convince the wrong person, there's nothing there that they could offer me. [She had nothing, after all. Other than the clothes on her back.

And... oh. She's taking a deep breath to steady her nerves, that's not something she... really expected to hear.]

Perhaps you're right, but it doesn't help if I don't believe that I do.