She tilts her head. "Maybe when I've taught you more you'll know how to say what you want to know," she shrugs. And then she teaches him systems of measurements, and "heavier" and "lighter" and "farther" and "nearer", and when that's exhausted she draws and names houses, temples, chairs, tables, and the things that may be done with these and other objects. And then she thinks of a historical event she forgot, and goes back and covers that.