It’s really a delaying tactic to try and get something coherent ginned up in her mind while the mouth is on autopilot............
That could be a long wait...
Yes, but she never gets around to saying anything coherent. She doesn’t focus and she doesn’t prepare.
FWIW, Her high school was in Westmount, the well-off English-speaking neighborhood of Montreal, but all the rich Anglophones send their kids to private school, so it’s not a very good school now. I don’t know if that was true 40 years ago when she was in high school.