"<span style="color: #BFFF00">Yes yes, I've heard it before, sweetheart. You've very old and very grouchy. How much is the rent in a trash can on a street occupied by mostly puppets, anyway?</span>" She smiles a little as she continues eating. "<span style="color: #BFFF00">You don't have to put on airs around me, Jan. Especially when we're alone. You can just be you. But, I suppose you being rude and grumpy is just you being you as well. So I shouldn't complain much. Not to mention in a way I like that part too.</span>" She eats just as politely as she speaks and acts. She eats slowly, elbows off the table, only taking what she can actually chew and swallowing it before taking another bite. It leads her to eat a bit slowly but she looks very primp and proper.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #BFFF00">Oh, also, you know we have British people in America, right? British people that were born in America. Why not just tell people your parents were Brits and you were born here and use your normal accent? Other than the fact that you like to trick and mess with people.</span>" She shrugs a bit, having only given a suggestion. "<span style="color: #BFFF00">I also hope you understand I'm only trying to help you when I tell you to change or comb your hair. I'll admit I'm also helping myself because I don't have to look across the table at a blonde English sheep dog, but that's minor.</span>" She does see the irony of him acting more like his mother when he's ten times as old as she is. "<span style="color: #BFFF00">Maybe I act more like his girlfriend...</span>" She says aloud to herself, but she erases that thought quickly.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #BFFF00">The fish is tilapia, my dear. It's considered a 'rough fish' but when prepared correctly it's very good.</span>" She pours them both a glass of cherry lemonade. "<span style="color: #BFFF00">Should I prepare the couch for you to stay the night?</span>" She smiles up at him. "<span style="color: #BFFF00">If you don't like the food I spent two hours cooking for you, I could give you a Boston Crab as well.</span>" She's likely used this on him before. If he complains about what he cooks for her she'll offer him a 'Boston Crab' instead. It's the name of a wrestling hold in which the victim is laying on their stomach, the attacker semi-sits on the victim's lower back and pulls both the victim's legs towards them and under the attacker's arms stretching out their legs, thighs and especially abdomen. Maria considers the act of complaining about given food, especially free food, very disrespectful.