[She gets a little start from the "human methods" comment before she realizes that he's probably distinguishing the methods from himself rather than her -- there's no way he could know she's not human, right? Luckily, being in a three-way conversation means that her hesitation in answering is covered by Eley's response.]

With all the different places people are from, I couldn't help but have trouble with some things like that. But I also find it hard to believe someone would be so careful about how much energy they're using that they'd avoid laughing. Isn't it supposed to be good for you, or something?

And, well...more emotion wouldn't hurt. You really have to sell the joke -- [She stops, seeing a possible pitfall.] Um, not that you sell it literally. It's an expression. You have to...engage people, I guess.