It is totally your actions that she is noticing, be very mysterious, do things that you would like to do but do not do very often or at all.
This dropping the rope you are doing helps a bunch, she is starting to wonder if you are going to be on the other end of the rope. She is starting to pick it up and see if you are there.
We want what we cannot have, when we lose something that is when we want it the most.
