Ness certainly would like to think she can be clever and discreet... but if her own confidence there fails, perhaps Gwenaëlle's borrowed belief will do. She nods at Gwen, very serious, a junior officer determined to get her first assignment right—

"It will be. I'll work on it, as much as I can."

With that decided, she looks back to the course she'd interrupted Gwen in the middle of, and gestures at it with a heroically impassive expression.

"I won't interrupt again if you want to get back to your training. I have work I could—I'll be elsewhere, I mean. No, uh. Danger of a repeat."