The smile she receives in return is a much brighter thing, quietly pleased at the explanation. Yes, she is very clever. Ellis had never been worried about Wysteria's chances of bringing the Division heads around to the brilliance of her work, but it stands to reason that she'll likely to manage to wring all her demands from them and then some.

"You should let me get you a proper accounting of it's cost then," Ellis tells her, glancing up from the pamphlet. "I paid less than it was worth."

And if she has a record of the proper worth, then who was to say how much coin had changed hands?