She stays impassive and calm, simply content to learn and to keep asking what she needs to know and what was within reason. Not so much to put the Countess on her backfoot. So she nods and listens.

A brave woman, nothing less than to stand here in a war camp and face such things when it seemed no one thought a woman capable of that. A smile parts, brief and understanding for what it's worth. "And in his absence, it falls to you?" Or is she simply to abide where it is safe? Couches it carefully, to see what there relationship was like. If she was here simply because he preferred her where she was safe. "I ask only as things are... different to my home. I would not wish to risk offence by misunderstanding who I am to offer my services too."