Does she be tactful and wait for Anna to bring it up first, or does she get straight into it and point out that something seems to be painfully different about Anna?

Clover takes the drink an tries it. It's not terrible. She can live with it. "I like it." Something in between a lie and the truth.

"Since it's been a little while... what's new with you?" She may as well get this over with. That's at least a question that can be navigated with half-truths. She phrases it to give Anna an out if she wants to take it.