I haven't touched pirfed and don't know anything about it structure. If this were Usenet I'd guess that the comments hadn't propagated to your local server and that opening in a private window forced a news cache pull. But that's 25 years out of date.
That sounds like something Australia would do to her because she is exactly the kind of person they always do that to, a crazy person who thinks they aren't crazy and likes to tell people that they should be crazy too.
I read it as "prayer really does work" being said to someone that didn't ask, and in my edit, in the absence of any reason whatsoever. And without the edit it was pretty representative of conversations where no one asked and the reason given was as simple as the presence of a cat.
That flour needs to be well mixed with both a whisk and a rubber spatula into the butter. The flour needs to be cooked in that butter. Not just mixed in. You want to see it darken just a bit. Add just a little of the milk at a time. If it curdles it will get grainy. Keep cooking and mixing with both tools until you can use that rubber spatula to scrape the bottom and it takes a little while for the sauce to fill the void. Cook it longer still. You want it to be thick. Then add that cheese. But, again, not all at once. Three or four editions without adding more until it's fully mixed in and melted.
You can tell from the way he was holding onto the aid before he fell that this isn't his first fall.