[What does she think? As she flips through the pages of her book:]

She's a very capable young woman, and kind. I can see why she was made a captain.

[With that said, she looks up from her book, an unreadable expression across her face. Her voice is soft, well-meaning so that her words come across as encouragement rather than chastisement.]

I think you could afford to be more open with her. She worries about you, even when you mean for her not to.