[her lips curve in a tentative, shy but happy smile]

Everything I learned before was so...focused on a singular goal. But there's--there's a great deal more than I want to learn. [she pulls the copy of "Sense and Sensibility" out of her back pocket] Like books. Not books on medicine, but books.

[she'd always felt guilty for envying the few young people she'd met, for their chance to have fun without it being seen as frivolous]