I’d disagree slightly about the why while 100% agreeing on the result; it’s not that Lottie is doing things wrong – it’s that she’s doing it in a way Beate can’t: with “such confidence and charisma” as we have regularly seen Lottie deploy and Beate has not yet shown much reserves of.

It has to be frustrating watching someone be better at getting an answer out of of a person of interest not by being better at massaging the conversation to present an opportunity to ask a relevant question _but by not having to_.