She can see how little her honesty is helping--even though she's trying, she is, just like she always does--and for a moment Rosie wishes she'd chosen some convenient lie instead. Maybe it'll be something different for Neil and whoever else from the city he's gone with, but based on everything she knows and everything she's heard, she doesn't hold out much hope.

"Tea would be lovely, thank you," she says when he asks, and nearly leaves it there before some instinct moves her to speak again. Given how closed-off he is, it may well backfire just like everything else she'd said since the minute he walked into Neil's room, but she has to try. "If you'd rather, you should. Go, I mean, but if you wanted to...to be here with Neil, I already know where the hospital cafeteria is. So I could bring something back for you, instead."