[She nodded eagerly, hands folded in her lap. Trying very hard to hide the worry that they might turn out not to be good. Luckily, she's good at a poker face. Though Alice does know her well, at this point.]

Mm-hmm, yes, that was the idea. I'm not sure what your maximum number of cupcakes is, but I encourage you to liberally eat them.

[And she starts to carefully unwrap one of her own, like she's carefully defusing an explosive.]