[The sympathetic gesture certainly doesn't hurt. She doesn't look half as tense and angry as she did at the very least and that's progress?

She does follow him as he moves near the machine and at the very least she is an attentive listener. She follows the movement of his hand with her gaze.]

Is it better to ease into the pedal to begin with then? The manual did say to apply pressure but not exactly how much.

[She thumbs through said manual a moment with a healthy frown on her lips.]

It wasn't much help to be honest.