It is about halfway through the third hour of the fifteenth day of Lucette's attempt to reorganize her grandfather's library. The project is moving at an acceptable pace overall, though she's starting to question the wisdom of having scheduled the whole thing down to the hour during day three (hour four).
"If you're sure..."
"... would you like it if I went back to attempting to elicit positive expressions and sounds out of you?"
Eventually Lucette realizes that she's been hungry for the past hour or so and should probably have an extremely late lunch or early dinner.
"It can be a more than one time thing if you would like? I quite appreciate how happy it makes you."
"I've been wishing you'd kiss me since the moment we met but I'm not sure how I feel about it if you don't actually like it and just like making me happy."
"I do enjoy it? You being happy feels very nice. If it didn't make you happy I don't think I would enjoy it at all, but so long as that's not the case I would like to continue doing it."
"- it's not that I'd hope you'd enjoy it even if I hated it, that would be bad, but if that's all you're getting out of it and it doesn't also feel nice or anything..."
"I will kiss you and it will be the best part of my day even if it's like... talking about the weather. But it would be a little sad, if it was like that, only something that'd ever occur to you because it's good for someone else."
"I think I enjoy it considerably more than talking about the weather, and also it doesn't require conscious effort on my part for me to cultivate an interest in it, unlike meteorology. I don't think kissing any woman would have occurred to me without you having mentioned it, though."
"If you only have the idea ever in your life because I mentioned it that's different from if it'd never come to mind as a thing to do on a given day, I think."
"I think so, yeah? Like if you'd never heard of - apples - and I introduced you to apples and then you wanted them for breakfast every morning, that means it turns out you like apples, and if you'd never heard of them and then only ate them when I was fixing something for both of us - if I cooked any more given that there's servants - the analogy is kind of breaking down here, sorry."
"I'm not completely certain I follow..." Can she lean on Annie while flying?
... no, apparently not.
"I think if you really enjoyed eating apples, I would also want you to have apples even if I would not get very much out of eating them myself... I think the thing that makes kissing you particularly enjoyable is that I feel, perhaps unreasonably given the mind control, that your reaction to it reflects on me. If I were going to stretch the metaphor to cover this, I would say that I'd actually personally want to cook you dishes with apples, except not really because I'd have no idea where to begin with such an endeavor."