"It certainly seemed to work before," she replied. "After all, didn't you rescue me by poking something extremely dangerous with a sharp stick, until you found something interesting? I'm not saying that, necessarily, you should go 'running around like a headless chicken', but at the same time... you are a very different man than the one I first met. The man I first met would have gone out to reconcile our polite civil war single-handedly, and probably done it, somehow. Now... you accepted my advice, and then moved on to another topic."