['ain't too nice' is an understatement but it doesn't see inappropriate when she says it. He also doesn't understand the chiming sounds she makes once he's heard the stool being dragged over but there are a lot of things she's said that he hasn't exactly understood and so he just rolls with it. He's never heard of a 'companion' as a job. Is that like a nurse? ]
no subject
Life is tenacious.
[and precious because of that]
What's a companion?