Druitt doesn't rush her. After the fight they've just had, he's well aware that there's going to need to be a certain amount of assessment involved. And not just on the physical end of things, either - while he and James had grown very much used to their verbal sparring, he's not certain how used to the idea of violence as pressure release Ashley might be. Still, he's perfectly willing to put the anger he'd been drawing on on hold until she finishes thinking.

It's only when she answers that he finally lets go of that anger, letting it fade back into the quiet background hum it usually is. And for all that he notices that her words are, perhaps, not as determined as they would normally be, he doesn't say anything about it. Not when it would most likely just be counterproductive.

"Mmm." There's a nod, too, enough to make it clear that he means it as a sort of non-verbal 'you're welcome'.