As he remarked on the contents of each room, she laughed at his surprisingly astute, self-effacing jokes, and offered her own exaggerated responses in kind. She gasped at the gilded touches here and there and fanned herself when they encountered an especially expensive-looking piece of art or furniture. "All of this excess is going to make a poor peasant woman like myself faint! Multiple bathrooms? Goodness, where I come from, we dig pit latrines and there are no Brita filters for our disease-ridden water, either."<br/><br/>At the conclusion, his sudden proximity was unmistakable, even in spite of her relative lack of a romantic life. She turned her gaze to him, and felt genuinely pleased about the proposition. The night was largely a success and had greatly exceeded her own dismal expectations. She could only speculate how this would change their working relationship from then on. "That's very conscientious -- Your kind<em>can</em>learn! Yes, I'd like that a lot."