Huh. He's better at this than she'd been expecting. The pause is a little too pointed, but it's not a half-bad attempt - and one she has to leave unchallenged. It's galling, and for a minute, Alodia regrets her decision to be properly polite this evening.
Be the bigger person, Al, you can do this.
"It certainly shows," she says, injecting as much genuine appreciation into her voice as possible. If she's lucky, he'll realize she caught the slight and is choosing to ignore it; if not, he'll probably assume she's a little dim and it flew right over her head. She can work with either outcome. "I think it's wonderful that you're so happy for the two of them."
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Date: 2015-02-11 07:29 am (UTC)Be the bigger person, Al, you can do this.
"It certainly shows," she says, injecting as much genuine appreciation into her voice as possible. If she's lucky, he'll realize she caught the slight and is choosing to ignore it; if not, he'll probably assume she's a little dim and it flew right over her head. She can work with either outcome. "I think it's wonderful that you're so happy for the two of them."