She does, to her credit, try very hard to listen and pick up as much as possible. She does it because she wants to spit and snarl and reject everything he says, and she can't do that if she doesn't understand it.

So she gets some of it, and what she doesn't get she guesses at, and what's too unfamiliar to make good guesses about she invents out of whole cloth. The effect she comes away with is very similar to the effect that Raylan had intended, even if the details differ a bit.

"But I don't want it," she says - turning her back to him, going to flop down onto a couch. "I could do this, but I don't want."

And there's the rub: between age eleven and now, she's forgotten how to want anything else for herself.