Ticking? Is there a big clock here, or something?

[She nods her thanks for the tea, blowing on it gently to cool it down.]

My job... Well, nobody's here that knows me, I might as well be honest. It's all right. I wanted it to be a stepping stone to something else, but I got stuck. My own fault, I guess. I fell for the wrong man. Can you get any more cliched than that?