Thank you.

[Kyrie bows her head to graciously accept the congratulations, and encouragement. Here it's different, but at home she might still be watched. Either way, she is looking forward to it, if she ever gets there.]

Then the trouble was that you were the one who was distant, I take it?

[It might be a bit blunt, but she's too sure she sees what he's getting at to bother being anything but frank about it.]