Cora doesn't normally do well with reassuring smiles, at least not from people she doesn't know. He doesn't seem like he's doing it to patronize her, however, so she'll take that and try not to react too adversely to what he's asking.

"I was followed around by a minion from a movie," she replies pointedly. "I've also met a lot of doppelgangers." She means that in the could-be-their-twin kind of way, not the Elena Gilbert way, just for the record.