I did only say pretend. After all, they were difficult to ignore.

[She smiled at the question, almost laughed.]

I saw a great deal more of your mother than your father, and so she was much easier to talk to.

[It is something that needs consideration, and that makes things more difficult to ignore. And something that she wants less to ignore in any case.]

Until the ending of the world.

[Well, not her, but she doesn't really know that yet.]