Nadia reached for her head, in a nervous pensive manner. It's like Borr had done a lobotomy on Lee. Well but what now? She couldn't exactly said 'I did not know you used the that tense structure (or the word privileged)' without sounding completly rude.

"No, nothing," she said, shaking her head, "Just that you appear different to me from the last time I saw you." She turned to Laurasia, "Relaxing thing, to have your hands busy with something, isn't it? How did your extra tutoring went? I never got to ask."