Her purr grew louder. Thank you! But then she backed up to sneeze, briefly. Not that she was sick, just his comment about not being smart enough!

I think you're plenty smart enough, but Ailurin is difficult for most non-People to learn, much less master. There's such a difference between numbers of vowels and consonants! Was I being rude? I hope not, but I apologize if I was. Humans call my city 'New York', if that helps at all.